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Don't you feel even the least temptation to romanticise that era when you read about it, though?

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Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

Disagree, and I think this is where we differ.

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And maybe you're not gonna have a problem with reinstituting slavery, because you've been raised with a corpus of literature holding it in repugnance. The problem would be for those who speak only Latin, and if we'd get off the ad hominem for a minute (you calling me an idiot, me inferring you're myopic to the point of villainy) We're not just talking about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights existing only in translation; we're talking about everything more recent than Virgil being translations from something or other.

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Originally written by Cryptozoology:

The very fact that language changes persisted over time

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Originally written by Cryptozoology:

So languages change either because words and pronunciations die out, in which case the original usages were unstable and trying to revive them will be futile since they'll only change back again

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Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

Yeah, but try teaching women's studies in Latin. Or the liberal arts in general.

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But 'basic language' itself has changed astoundingly since Latin flourished. My reference to women's studies exemplifies that: what a Latin-speaker would mean by 'domestic' and what we mean by 'domestic' are so wholly unrelated that it almost seems inappropriate to use the same word for both.

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in general the humanities have outstripped the ability of Latin to follow. (The last humanists to write primarily in Latin were Renaissance thinkers; the last humanists to write in Latin much at all were from the Enlightenment. We've come a long, long way since both.)

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My objection isn't to the ability to cover science, but in Latin's basic robustness as a language for the modern era.

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And try constructing 'head shop' in Latin - not just translating it, but constructing it so that it makes sense in Latin - you'd have to translate about the entire freaking counterculture, 30s through 60s, first.

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Latin has been dead so long that even a fluent expert in the language can't sound like anything except a stuffy, giggly geek when swearing in it.

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you can't make love in it (there's copious documentation seemingly to the contrary, but all of that ignores the fact that nothing native speakers of Latin did would qualify as anything better than screwing now - the idea of equanamity and respect between the sexes would have been viewed as risible).

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I'm just saying that if Latin had any business surviving into the modern era there'd be people speaking it now.

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Nobody has grown up speaking Latin for centuries precisely because nobody has thought of it as a particularly good idea to speak Latin exclusively at home in centuries.

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I'm not qualified to say why, because I'm no linguist, but it doesn't at all strike you that a language whose vulgar dialect has split a hundred different ways (or a thousand or more, depending on how generous you want to be with your definition of 'language' here) has reasons for doing that?

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

So for instance about Latin as a vehicle for science: scientific vocabulary may technically be English (as well as other modern languages)

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Originally written by Endemos:

Existence of Lost Bahssikava.

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Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

Uhg, you really are one of them. Just when I was starting to think I could trust you, you turn around and sink to their level with all the smileys, lame jokes and meta-posting. I am sorely disappointed. It's almost as if your account was hacked into by Alorael or something.

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Since when did your opinions or feelings matter to anyone? :P

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Originally written by Actaeon:

It is unfortunate, however, that it hinges on a cooincidence in Latin vs. Greek roots (ie con meaning against or con meaning with).

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Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

If people wanted to speak Latin, they would have maintained it as it was, wouldn't they?

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Latin's glaring insufficiency for modern life was enough that, in the Middle Ages, the language needed to be seriously reformed to be at all relevant to the time.

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Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

'Reviving' classical Latin is a little silly, considering as how it lives on in the Romance languages and the Latin of the church.

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It'd be as silly as 'reviving' Old English - it became Middle English for a reason.

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Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust:

How to kill Rentar-Ihrno:

1. Open scenario editor.
2. Place Rentar-Ihrno in the starting town. (You may have to make a new monster type, unlike Erika I can't find her in the docs.)
3. Start the game.
4. KILLKILLKILL
5. Rinse your hands of the blood and repeat.

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Originally written by upon mars:

Religion comes from the word RELIGAS : to BINE the PEOPLE.
To Bine an empire where people have a commun ground.

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Edit - Added quote for clarity.

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