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

Raymond Brown wrote:
>
> At 9:36 am +0100 10/11/99, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> >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)
>
> Church Latin ugly or less pretty?
>
> What, pray, is ugly or un-pretty about the simple yet powerful Latin of the
> 'Stabat mater'?  What is ugly about the 'Salve Regina'?
>
        Actually, my preferred version of the 'Salve Regina' is the Sister
Act's one :) . I've always thought Church Latin was simply Medieval
Latin read in an Italian way. Is that right or am I completely off?

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