Re: OT: First text in Agsem
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 4, 2000, 0:00 |
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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! :)
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Patrick Dunn wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ed Heil wrote:
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> > Patrick Dunn wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> 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.