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Latin was the international language of Europe for almost a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, during which time many scientific advancement
by umanwizard 8y ago
Latin was the international language of Europe for almost a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, during which time many scientific advancements were made. There are plenty of Latin words for things that didn't exist in Antiquity.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThere are tiny communities who use recreational Latin today. Here's the Vicipaedia article on the telephonum: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonum https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonum But that doesn't really constitute a good argument that there is a Latin word for telephones.
- marktangotango 8y agoThank you, beautiful refutation of an argumentative quarralous, I would even say bad faith, assertion, which we see entirely to often now imo.
- Pharmakon 8y agoI had no idea this existed, and you just made my day with it.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoGiven that telephone is Ancient Greek (though obviously coined more recently), I don't see why there shouldn't be a Latin word for it.