Hi all,
Of course Latin’s not evil but earlier today I was reading “Fumus, Draco Magus” out loud when my mother over heard me and commented, "Stop it, your starting to scare me. "
HAH HA AH HAH I thought,
Has any one ever had a similiar comment about Latin?
if beauty is evil, then yes. but since 'tis nae, nae.
-Jon
I voted no, but my wife thinks German sounds sinister no matter what is being said in German.
WB
When I first came to Latin I was (and still am) blown away by the purity of its pronounciation. English’s prounciation is a
cruel joke compared to Latin’s. To me, Latin has a very up and down candence to it that most likely gives the listen something diffrent from English’s monotone sound.
Latin possesses truly crisp, beautiful, architectonic auditory beauty. Naturally, the language has been perverted by pseudo witchcraft, so an evil tint is probably just an innocently ignorant bias. For auditory Latin beauty:
For auditory Latin beauty:
go here, homeboy.
there are many more places to go, of course, and most are good, but this is on my iPod.
or here, which is a textkittopic, just in case you 'aven’t been there.
these are all examples of non-sinister latin.
-Jon
I’m not really a big fan of the sound of any language, but I have to say I prefer Latin’s descendants to Latin itself, especially French which sounds nothing like it. I don’t about evil though 
, but it were chanted really slowly, I think it could take on a very sinister tone.
But from the little I’ve read about the reconstructed pronunciation of Latin, some of it sounds scary. Sapiens with “i” being the English lax “i” and “en” being a nasalised vowel (please, please correct me if I’ve got the details wrong!), I could call that evil too .
and “en” being a nasalised vowel
Not really, as far as I know.
The “e” is always a “pure” e. The “n” though was not a full “n” in that position, but more like a “nasal continuation”, so to speak, of the “e” itself. This also naturally happens in Italian and it is not frightening at all. 
Hey Guys,
Check out this audio file of Latin being recited, listen all the way to the end of it becasue a student and teacher converse it Latin:
You’re extremely kind, Deu! You really flatter me.
your studies just paid off, that’s all. I try not to flatter, but speak soothe. but I woulde that thou wouldst to recognize a worthy accomplishmentte. By the way, let us all give a laurel and hardy handshake to Amadeus for his recording de Hercule.
-Jon