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Do you feel the same way about the English language?
by laichzeit0 11y ago
Do you feel the same way about the English language?
- criddell 11y agoExactly. I hear Latin is pretty stable these days.
- laichzeit0 11y agoYeah, Classical Latin is pretty stable. Try use it in a modern conversation and you'll realize how painful that property is. Anything that's made of plastic, uses electricity, steam, actually any original idea in the last 300 years would require inventing some neologism just so you could talk about it.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIm not so sure? The word 'plastic' existed before plastic did. Does Latin not have a word for that property? And so on.
- laichzeit0 11y agoI think you might still end up with something like the Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis [1] maintained by the Vatican. And unless you "make up" neologisms you'll end up with stuff like "timer - instrumentum tempori praestituendo" which would be extremely tedious to use in a conversation. Purists might argue that it would be awesome if we could make grammar "stable" though. It's an interesting thought. [1] http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/latinitas/documents/rc_latinitas_20040601_lexicon_it.html http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/lat...
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoAgain, the word 'timer' could be some variant of 'temporia', a shortcut for the device that isn't descriptive, just like in English?