The reason you use dead languages for magic is that they don't move. Spells in living languages spoil within years due to semantic drift.
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Replying to @allgebrah
An influential Latin dictionary once published a revised edition and broke 30% of spells. This led to wizards' adoption of versioned Latin.
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Replying to @allgebrah
That does raise a question: do Latin[ate] spells retain vowel length, the [w] pronunciation of "v", and nasal vowels for "Vm"?
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Replying to @SeadogDriftwood
hmm latin is relatively rare in that everything goes in pronunciation I suppose it's happy to be spoken at all
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