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Latin
Aug 27, 2006 0:29:13 GMT -5
Post by Keenan & Kennal on Aug 27, 2006 0:29:13 GMT -5
Of corse its spoken in latin class! any language you studdy in a class is usualy spoken in that class. but how often can you walk up to some one, speak latin and have them know what your saying, or even know what language you are speaking in! sure its studied, so are other 'dead' languages! its a root, but so are other 'dead' languages.
i supose i could agree that its not compleetly dead, becase it does share trates between other dead, and living languages. but its not compleely alive either.
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Latin
Aug 27, 2006 8:02:18 GMT -5
Post by sun on Aug 27, 2006 8:02:18 GMT -5
Spanish, German, French, Italian and others, I think, are Romance languages(Languages that are dirived from Latin), English is not considered a Romance language. This is because it is dirived from many different languages,including Latin.(Music terms are Italian. Sci terms are Latin and Greek, generally. Halt in German means stop. Mann in German is man.)
Latin is alive in my opinion.
Fro, you scare me. (we need to get the site up and running again)
Keenan, Fro and I say different things in Latin to each other alot, usually at lunch or in the hall.
Marvelous.
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Latin
Aug 27, 2006 13:35:01 GMT -5
Post by Keenan & Kennal on Aug 27, 2006 13:35:01 GMT -5
okay, so ther is two people who speak latin outside class, but let me guess, you both took a latin class, posible togeather, and probobly recently? if true, thats hardly the same as walking dow the street and finding some one who knows latin!
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Latin
Aug 27, 2006 13:42:06 GMT -5
Post by sun on Aug 27, 2006 13:42:06 GMT -5
I know more latin because I am in a higher class, per se.
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Latin
Aug 28, 2006 18:06:09 GMT -5
Post by Hoax & Neo [inactive] on Aug 28, 2006 18:06:09 GMT -5
Latin, to me, is alot like Old English. It once thrived, but is now dead, or near extinct.
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Latin
Sept 13, 2006 16:46:40 GMT -5
Post by Dan on Sept 13, 2006 16:46:40 GMT -5
latin is actually a dead language thats why its used in the scientific community like to name stuff because the words meanings dont change over the years. some schools still ofer it though
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Latin
Sept 22, 2006 17:29:46 GMT -5
Post by Farrah on Sept 22, 2006 17:29:46 GMT -5
Ack. I'm going to stop arguing on this one. But I still rest my case. Latin is alive in other thriving languages though it itself isn't spoken. It's still breathing. Breathing!
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Latin
Sept 24, 2006 11:45:25 GMT -5
Post by sun on Sept 24, 2006 11:45:25 GMT -5
latin is actually a dead language thats why its used in the scientific community like to name stuff because the words meanings dont change over the years. some schools still ofer it though Italian is used in music and it's not dead. Greek, too, is used in science and it's not dead.
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Latin
Oct 2, 2006 5:54:39 GMT -5
Post by Poppet on Oct 2, 2006 5:54:39 GMT -5
language - any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another.
Tell me the last book published entirely in Latin for any general public. Yeah, that's right, it probably happened over a millenia ago. People study Latin today because it is the base for much of our modern language, but no one really uses it for communication anymore, hence the language is dead.
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Latin
Oct 3, 2006 16:52:28 GMT -5
Post by Farrah on Oct 3, 2006 16:52:28 GMT -5
Actually, it wasn't. Harry Potter series, all of the Dr. Seuss (sp?) books, Lord of the Rings, and others, have recently been published in pure Latin. In fact, my Latin teacher has all of these in her classroom...and they're not purely for the classroom. People like to read in Latin. In fact, many poems of the 1500's were written in Latin.
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Latin
Oct 4, 2006 20:47:19 GMT -5
Post by sun on Oct 4, 2006 20:47:19 GMT -5
And there are many books in libraries that are in Latin, most are to learn Latin though, but still. You can go to Barnes & Nobles and order books, if they don't have it in stock, in Latin.
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Latin
Oct 6, 2006 15:40:46 GMT -5
Post by Farrah on Oct 6, 2006 15:40:46 GMT -5
Yippee! See! I'm right! *does the 'I'm right' dance* I love you! *hugs mirror* ((...to all those who don't know me well, it's not that I dislike you or anything...this is not against you...this is just me doing my 'I love me' boogie...do not take offense...except for you, BlackStar, 'cause I just don't like you.... )
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Latin
Oct 6, 2006 23:49:45 GMT -5
Post by Poppet on Oct 6, 2006 23:49:45 GMT -5
Terribly sorry, but the point still stands, Latin is simply not a language used for mass communication. Certainly I am not denying that various materials are published in Latin, but it is soley an acquired language. No one learns Latin as a first language; it has no common body of people in the current day that speak it. In this sense it is a dead language.
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Latin
Oct 7, 2006 8:04:11 GMT -5
Post by Farrah on Oct 7, 2006 8:04:11 GMT -5
12:49 am???!!! Where do you live, Poppet? *cough cough* Sorry...off track... Anyhowl, I accept your apology. 'Tis no problem! It's not like we sign up to take courses on the uses of Latin! *watches as BlackStar steps out of said line* *cough* Some people actually do learn it as a primary language. In fact, I know someone. Reid Buckley. You may not have heard of him, but he's 'famous' and lives in my home town. He teaches a public speaking school and his brother, Clyde? , is a famous artist. It's an interesting family, but we're good friends with them... Anyways, so there it is. It can be learned and IS learned as a first language in some areas. Especially Omish (sp?) areas. Is that a Leprechaun? As your avvy? Cool.
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Latin
Oct 7, 2006 20:10:07 GMT -5
Post by sun on Oct 7, 2006 20:10:07 GMT -5
And as I said before there is a city in Italy that Latin is spoken, and it is also learned as a first language.
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