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Battle of Vukovar
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It's widely claimed that Latin is a dead language, because, it is no longer commonly spoken, but, it does persist in some tiny traditional Catholic monastic circles, and so, I don't think that it is completely dead. Plus, it is said/sung in the Tridentine Mass.
RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 23, 2022 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2022 at 1:18 pm by FlatAssembler.)
There's certainly some crying involved on this end.
![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg?rlkey=x1nmxbwrp...pouidnfvtl]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/a6a72vica8gsyddmkhtxp/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg?rlkey=x1nmxbwrpk9dzrupouidnfvtl)  (July 23, 2022 at 12:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote: It's widely claimed that Latin is a dead language, because, it is no longer commonly spoken, but, it does persist in some tiny traditional Catholic monastic circles, and so, I don't think that it is completely dead. Plus, it is said/sung in the Tridentine Mass. A dead language means that us has no native speakers - no one today learns Latin as a first language, so it qualifies as ‘dead’. A language with no speakers at all is called an ‘extinct’ language. There’s another category for little-spoken languages called ‘dormant’, but I don’t remember what the standards are (and can’t be arsed to look them up). Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
 (August 25, 2019 at 8:51 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I think that Latin, when everything is taken into account, is actually easier than English. I have studied Latin for two years in high-school, then I haven't written in it or spoken it for three years.I had English for 9 years and Latin for 7. English is easier than Latin by a huge margin. The fact that you seem to have problems with learning English does not make Latin easier.
Cetero censeo religionem delendam esse
 (July 23, 2022 at 12:08 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: So, I am the exact opposite of a fascist, am I not? What about Tito? Do you like that guy?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(July 23, 2022 at 2:10 pm)Deesse23 Wrote:(August 25, 2019 at 8:51 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I think that Latin, when everything is taken into account, is actually easier than English. I have studied Latin for two years in high-school, then I haven't written in it or spoken it for three years.I had English for 9 years and Latin for 7. I have read that around 25% of the words in English descend from Latin (via other languages), even though English is not a Romance language. RE: Battle of Vukovar
July 23, 2022 at 2:28 pm
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