Re: Reading old Greek (was: kudos (was: most looked-up words))

From:    Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
> That's my not quite so long experience too.  I certainly have
> experienced that the reconstructed pronunciation of Swedes
> and Norwegians differs on some points, and those of Swedes
> and Germans are not easily mutually intelligible!
In my experience, Germans typically don't actually use a
reconstructed pronunciation at all.  Rather, their native
way of pronouncing Latin is simply not as divergent from that
of antiquity as the traditional English pronunciation of
Latin, which underwent the Great Vowel Shift.  In legislative
assemblies of the Anglophone world, one usually still adjourns
_sine die_ /saIni daI/. ;)

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