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Re: R: Latin pronounciation

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, October 16, 2000, 16:18
Mangiat wrote:

> BTW, > which Latin pronounciation does the Catholic church use in Anglosaxon > countries? I think they'd use medioeval pronounciation...
Yes.
> I've heard a > couple of times priests speaking among them in Latin, but if they used > different pronounciations they wouldn't understand anything
Actually, mutual intelligibility is not really very much impaired by deviant pronunciations. People just (used to) get used to it. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein