@Meaningness @simplic10 Actually I'm probably very wrong about this.
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@St_Rev@simplic10 Wiki seems to think it’s pretty well (not perfectly) known, but doesn’t explain how. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pronunciation …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@simplic10 Yeah, I kind of don’t think of that as “Latin,” but…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@simplic10 It's what I had in mind re: liturgical Latin.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@simplic10 Uh, yes, of course; I was thinking of *pagan* liturgical Latin…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev Predecessor to Rus, Ukr, Bel was Old Church Slavonic. Many more phonemes than modern langs, incl nasal sounds2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev which are somewhat preserved in Polish. Anyway pseudo OCS is used in Orth church but pronounced much like modern langs.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev As for old langs, you'd be surprised what can be reconstructed from rhymes, descs of 1 lang in another...2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10@St_Rev And also then-contemporary grammar books. Also from puns and stories about rubes mispronouncing things…1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@simplic10 @St_Rev There’s a Catullus poem making fun of some nouveau riche guy from the provinces who aspirates his initial Cs, e.g.
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