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It depends. If you know enough English and a modern Romance language or two you can almost understand the medieval Latin of Aquinas. Whereas Caesar using native
by porknubbins 3y ago
It depends. If you know enough English and a modern Romance language or two you can almost understand the medieval Latin of Aquinas. Whereas Caesar using native Latin made heavy use of declensions to indicate grammatical function so you really can’t rely on a modern sense of word order without getting lost. The second language Latin users seem to speak a kind of Latin-lite with their native language shining through.
- sterlind 3y agoThe person in this video did quite a good job, I thought, of speaking with free word order and using Latin constructions elegantly. I think he did try to make himself more intelligible (focusing on proper nouns that are easier for Italian speakers to pick up on) later on, but initially he was fire (imo.)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI know English and Italian and studied latin in high school, but I can't understand it all. To be fair, it was my bane in high school