RE: Re: Back in the Saddle

From: Elena Dent <debadger_at_pacbell.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:20:48 -0700

Church Latin is not at all a dead language and is still the internal language of the Catholic Church. Yes, a very high percentage of the clergy speak English as well as their native language, but all of them speak and read Church Latin (which is not at all the same language as classical Latin). And most of the higher ranking clergy speak multiple languages, either they tend to be promoted on linguistic talent or they've got the time and inclination to study more languages. Or both.

Elena

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[mailto:OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Joy McCann
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Why would we not be able to make a profit off of 20-200 readers? We
should be ashamed of being a little niche publication?

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BTW, can't ANYONE tell me what it was like to have Hebrew essentially
resurrected as a language after it was nearly dead, used only in
temples/synogogues (DO, pls. fix spelling there; thanks). I mean,
hadn't Hebrew fallen entirely into rare use--similar to the situation
with Latin before Vatican II? How do we know how close the
pronunciations are now to what they were a few thousand years ago?

--J
Received on 2006-04-12 17:20:15