Re: Old Languages

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:05:49 +0200, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...>
wrote:

>On Friday 05 October 2001 20:55, you wrote:
>> There are several Web forums in Latin. I can find the links.
>
>Yes, yes, find them! And post them!
Unfortunately, Grex Latine Loquentium (which I primarily meant)
seems to have disappeared because of some technical trouble. The
following forum:

Grex Alter Latine loquentium
http://digilander.iol.it/Marziale/Grex/

- claims to be the substitute. If the core group of the old
(Conradus') Grex moved there, it is _the_ recommended place.
The old list was Latin-only, really competent and friendly
(I lurked there for a while).

All other Latin groups at least permit posts in modern langs.
But some seem likely to support some chatting in Latin, too,
and are indeed easier to begin with:

Latin1
http://campus.fortunecity.com/athena/300/

Yahoo! Groups : circulus-latinus
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circulus-latinus

Forum Latinitatis vivae
http://home.eduhi.at/member/heme/latine/
- A IRC/DALNET {MIRC} forum; don't ask me what this means and how
it's used ;) !

LatnChatn
http://forums.delphi.com/latnchatn/

Latin-L
http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hyper-lists/latin-l/current/

Probably, also:
Grex poetarum scribentium latine
http://www.man.torun.pl/archives/latine.html
- Yes, they're writing poems in Latin :)


Maybe, you'll find more in one of these links pages:

http://digilander.iol.it/Marziale/Grex/nexus/fora.html

http://campus.fortunecity.com/athena/300/lists.html

http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/bibliotheca/discussion.html

http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Cultures___Community/By_Language/Latin

http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/ressourc/ressourc.html#list

http://www.lateinforum.de/foren.htm

- but, as usual, they list many broken links, dormant forums, and the
like, as well as more special boards (teachers', discussing a specific
author, etc.) Unfortunately, most forums/mailing lists archives don't
permit viewing them in guest mode, so I can't quickly assess what's
going on there.

Besides, there are tons of Living Latin sites and homepages. My
impression is that many 'Living Latinists' are likely to
correspond with somebody who will write a friendly message in Latin
and has some other interests related to theirs. Netscape Open
Directory lists some pages at http://dmoz.org/World/Lingua_Latina/,
but there are much more; try to google for _living latin_ or
_latinum vivum_ or _sodalitas_, or simply _latin_ + some other keyword.

I hope this helps.


Basilius