Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Irina Rempt wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > As for my comparison with American (or any modern) users of Latin:  There
> > are very few people anymore who have been exposed to spoken Latin (those
> > that have are, generally, Roman Catholics over the age of 55 or so), so
> > all of the "Latin experience" for the rest of us comes out of books.
> > Hence, we pronounce final M's.
>
> Even Roman Catholics over 55, and those people who still go to Latin
> Masses, are not exposed to *spoken* Latin, but to read-aloud
> *written* Latin; all the RC priests I've heard celebrating in Latin
> pronounced every single written letter.
>
All right -- _a_ spoken Latin.  The _real_ spoken Latin is (at our church
anyway) what you get when you go to any one of the four Spanish Masses. ;)

Padraic.

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