A lot of medical and scientic language is based in Latin. But people don't speak it conversationally any more.
I can't quite understand why that's so hard to grasp.
A quick Google search says that about 60% of English words come ffrom Latin...but we still don't speak it. It's roots of words for the most part. It's been adapted. The original Latin is not used on the regular...at least not since the Catholic mass moved from it. Wonder why they changed from Latin? Maybe because people don't speak it any more...just a thought.
I can't quite understand why that's so hard to grasp.
A quick Google search says that about 60% of English words come ffrom Latin...but we still don't speak it. It's roots of words for the most part. It's been adapted. The original Latin is not used on the regular...at least not since the Catholic mass moved from it. Wonder why they changed from Latin? Maybe because people don't speak it any more...just a thought.