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> Not exactly sure why, maybe small corpus That's probably most of the problem. The entire corpus of ancient Latin is on the order of 9-10M words. If you print
by duskwuff 3y ago
> Not exactly sure why, maybe small corpus
That's probably most of the problem. The entire corpus of ancient Latin is on the order of 9-10M words. If you printed it at the same density as a typical English novel, it wouldn't even fill a bookcase.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoWhy would the corpus need to be limited to antique latin? The language was in use for much longer than antiquity. You've got everything from Thomas Aquinas to Isaac Newton to pad with.
- KaiserPro 3y agoBecause they are almost different languages "modern" latin is quite different to "roman" latin.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoEven roman latin changed during the millennium it was around though.