martes, 8 de septiembre de 2009

On Living Latin Response

I agree with the blogger, that a language most be lived or  be expressed in daily routines: "The 'most alive' languages have native speakers and transmit from parent to child between generations. Latin is plainly not alive in that sense." But the fact that "The Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis came out a few years ago - over 700 pages of modern vocabulary." It does not make it for me a reliving language. I think that for a language to relive, it needs to be spoken by a lot of people, and it must have evolved with modern times. Its hard to relive a language that has been stuck in time, languages evolve to. There may be new vocabulary, and people who speak it, but i think it is not enough. 

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