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Re: Reactions to the secret vice (was: Steg's wonderful sig.)

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 8:36
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> I was just teasing about the Latin; I am fond of it, of course, but I'm > fully aware that many people just aren't. And, I'm convinced, Church > Latin is damned ugly -- classical Latin, on the other hand, is pretty.
Strange; with me it's the other way around: medieval Latin is pretty (Church Latin, of course, being one of the less pretty flavours of medieval Latin) and classical Latin is affected ;-) Irina Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)