Re: no language no people

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Eruanno the Linguist wrote:

>>On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Eruanno the Linguist wrote:
>>
>> >> >>Welsh: Heb iaith, heb genedl.
>> >> >>English: No language, no people.
>>
>>I like the Brithenig better: yn pobl seint yn lenghedig,
>>yn pobl seint yn cordd. I think it sums up pretty well.
>>Oh right, not everyone knows what it means: A people
>>without a language (is) a people without a heart.
>>
>> >>How about:
>> >>
>> >>           Arilu cula, valu cula.
>> >>
>> >>           A non-changing language is a dead language.
>> >
>> >That means Latin is alive!!!!!!
>>
>>Was never in doubt! [I don't buy the idea that a language has
>>to evolve or have native speakers to be alive.] If it gets
>>used by some community, it's alive (if in ICU) in my opinion.
>
>If in ICU?  What do you mean?
ICU = intensive care unit, i.e., a place in hospital where
very intense and careful care is given. If it weren't given,
the patient would be dead. Odd people that write in obscure,
"dead" langauges (Tocharian, etc.) are like the nurses in
the ICU. These people keep the old langauges alive in some
way.

>Anyways...  I am teaching Latin to myself!
Do your students write in it? Or (heaven forbid!) speak
in it at all? I've always thought it a shame that Latin
wasn't taught a little more like Spanish (which is really
21st centurey Latin, but anyway), in that some cognizance
of Latin as a spoken language should be instilled. At
least it should be read aloud and composed in.

>Vestis virum reddit!
Excalcitra buggaros ex hinc ad maneanam Saturnis dies!

>Simia stat cum fa-mina-.
EEEK!!!
Non eum appella "simiam"!

>Juwenis infantem oculo- videt.
Solo oclo uno? Ah, Polyphemus id vissit.

>Ok, thats enough... ^_^
:D

Padraic.

>Namarie,
>Eruanno