Alan & Brenda Leonard

> Just as a little side note, it says in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader that the
> Vatican actually added some new words to Latin and published an 18,000 word
> dictionary in 1991, Lexicon Recentis Latinitas. (18,000 new words or 18,000
> words total?) I'm assuming these words were decided by committee rather than
> actual use so new words don't make Latin any less dead.

My husband, who is *really* into this kind of stuff, says that the vatican
*speaks* latin. Priests have to have some common language, being from all
over the world. So it would make sense that new words are needed
periodically, due to changes in the world.

brenda

Oh, and there may, in fact, be uses for sentence diagramming,
and I still think that all of you who liked that stuff are.......well,
wonderfully different from me. how's that?!

rumpleteasermom

There are actually two types of Latin. Church Latin is different in
some ways from Classical Latin. When I was in high school, the priest
who had been teaching us Classical Latin, left the priesthood mid-year
to get married (testimony to letting priests marry - he was one of the
best priests I knew). The nun who took over the class switched us to
church latin without even really explaining the differences fully.
What a pain that was!

Bridget

ps - Brenda - you can call me strange or weird, that's considered a
compliment in my house!


--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., Alan & Brenda Leonard <abtleo@e...>
wrote:
>
> My husband, who is *really* into this kind of stuff, says that the
vatican
> *speaks* latin. Priests have to have some common language, being
from all
> over the world. So it would make sense that new words are needed
> periodically, due to changes in the world.
>
> brenda
>
> Oh, and there may, in fact, be uses for sentence diagramming,
> and I still think that all of you who liked that stuff
are.......well,
> wonderfully different from me. how's that?!

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In a message dated 4/26/02 7:46:32 AM, rumpleteasermom@... writes:

<< There are actually two types of Latin. Church Latin is different in
some ways from Classical Latin. >>

More than two, for Latin scholars. But Church Latin, while specialized,
stayed in use (mostly in writing) through the Middle Ages, while "classical
Latin" (the REAL dead language) was the language in which the plays and
histories and philosophies and such of the Romans was written.

Because of the Roman Catholic church, liturgical business (the Mass, music,
prayers) were put into Latin even though it was only being used during
church, or among priests at formal meetings.

Sandra