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It would also be more accurate to talk about Latin reading, rather than Latin speaking. Imagine a modern Europe where people speak German, English, Italian, Sp
by rodgerd 10y ago
It would also be more accurate to talk about Latin reading, rather than Latin speaking. Imagine a modern Europe where people speak German, English, Italian, Spanish and all the numerous other variants, but still read and write everything and Latin.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoThis was not unusual in premodern Europe. European scholastic work still happened in Latin in the eighteenth century. Dante is famous for being the first to publish in Italian ("housewive's Latin") rather than Latin, and he was writing literature in the 1300s, centuries after people stopped being able to understand Latin.