Re: OT: First text in Agsem

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ed Heil wrote:

> It's not just Church Latin, man; it was all over by the late Empire.
> Heck, Julian the Apostate probably spoke that way, or close to it! :)
Probably not.  By most accounts he knew just enough Latin to command his
troops.  He used to say something to the effect of, "why should I learn
Latin when they only have one good poem and it's just an imitation of
Homer?"

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> Patrick Dunn wrote:
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> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ed Heil wrote:
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> > > Patrick Dunn wrote:
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> > > > copjaj infinitaj lacamendajce.
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> > > Is copjaj supposed to derive from "copiae"?  If so, note that
> > > Renaissance Latinists would be unlikely to be aware of the
> > > pronunciation of "copiae" as /'copIai/ in Classical Latin.  They would
> > > have pronounced it /'copIe/.
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> > Well, yeah, I know.  That occurred to me.  But church Latin gives me hives
> > so I engaged in a bit of artistic license.  Perhaps these mages have
> > sources of knowledge that the rest of us didn't.
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> > Really, I just can't endure church Latin.  I try.  But even when I sing
> > out loud to the Carmina Burana, I have to force myself not to sing in
> > classical Latin.
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