Battle of Vukovar

[Jehanne]

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 from 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.

During the Middle Ages, the majority of the population did not speak Latin; it was the language of academia -- to be admitted to the universities in the High Middle Ages, one had to have fluency in Latin.