Re: Dead languages?

From: Catherine Rees Lay (spamtrap_at_polyhedron.org.uk)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:28:04 +0100

In article <40ef20de.88344486@news.optonline.net>, Robert Wagner
<robert.deletethis@wagner.net> writes
>"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>On 9-Jul-2004, James Cownie <jcownie@etnus.com> wrote:
>>
>>> One of the "teach yourself a foreign language" companies here in the UK
>>> has been running adds which state "All our tapes are made by native
>speakers",
>>> and the list of languages includes Latin...
>>>
>>> I don't know where they found this native Latin speaker ;-)
>>
>>The Vatican?
>
>When I was a teenager, I worked weekends and summers as a golf caddy. Two of my
>regular clients were Catholic priests who talked to each other in Latin so the
>dumb caddy wouldn't understand .. they thought. When I started laughing at the
>punch lines of their ribald jokes, they realized their cover had been blown.
>They requested and got a dumber caddy. :)
>
>Their Latin was very good. I'd say they qualified as native speakers.
>
Church Latin uses different pronunciation to "academic" Latin though. I
was told that this is to make it easier to sing.

Catherine. 

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