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its dead but...
tu es mortuus mihi |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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yes but it's a dead language
a language of a past
that's like saying a dead human is not a human anymore. lol |
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ArakkasJoin Date: 2010-09-20
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I'm taking latin. I think a lot of languages were based off of it, so it's still fun to learn. |
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TheMyrcoJoin Date: 2011-08-13
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1) Don't use google, it makes you look like a disgrace.
2) It's not death - explain why it's still used then.
3) No. |
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XxJimmyxXJoin Date: 2009-02-15
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Many European languages are based off of it. |
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TDJoedJoin Date: 2012-04-19
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Yes latin is a language, and isn't dead because people still use it these days. |
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well legit comes from the latin word lego. |
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TheMyrcoJoin Date: 2011-08-13
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""2) It's not death - explain why it's still used then."
no one has latin as a native language"
Never said it was. But it is used in anatomy, biology, etc.... |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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google says
dead lan·guage
Noun:
A language no longer in everyday spoken use, such as Latin. |
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TheMyrcoJoin Date: 2011-08-13
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@sinii: Well it's obviously wrong. In the vatican city, people speak Latin. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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Not natively or for casual use. |
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My Honors German III class had this huge discussion on this yesterday. A ton of Americans feel that we should be learning Spanish (and not German), but we somehow changed the discussion to whether Latin is a real language or not. Of course, all of it was in German (As the class I am in will lead me to taking college-level German next year, my senior year). |
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TheMyrcoJoin Date: 2011-08-13
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"Not natively or for casual use."
They don't have to be native speakers to be speakers, and it is used for a casual reason there; some people are restricted to only talking latin there. |
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siniiJoin Date: 2011-09-30
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They can speak Latin, but for Latin to be revived, there has to be native Latin speakers. |
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TheMyrcoJoin Date: 2011-08-13
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You've got a point there.
So Latin is not death, nor really "alive"....it's braindeath! |
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