Has anyone who follows me learned one second language for ordinary reasons, and another for religious reasons? (E.g. French and Koine Greek)
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@St_Rev@simplic10 That would make sense… know of a specific example? dead languages usually get mispronounced per the local live one, natch -
@Meaningness@simplic10 AFAIK nobody has any idea how Latin was actually pronounced. -
@Meaningness@simplic10 So it'd be very hard to document. I have no idea if any work has been done in that area. -
@Meaningness@simplic10 Actually I'm probably very wrong about this. -
@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 … -
@St_Rev@simplic10 Yeah, I kind of don’t think of that as “Latin,” but… -
@Meaningness@simplic10 It's what I had in mind re: liturgical Latin. - 5 more replies
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