Do you agree with him? Would Latin really be the best? Why not Ancient Greek? Why not English?
I’d love to hear from you fine folks; preferably write your response in Latin (write responses here, or email ScorpioMartianus@gmail.com if you prefer); if some discussion erupts here on the matter, that would be great! it’ll become a part of the next show.
WHOA there! I need to get a hang of Latin first! I’ve been learning for one year, so there’s some time until I even consider speaking like this: Tod kékluwos χowis ħégrom bhugét. In Latin, I’ll try: Hac audibitur, ovis agro fugit.
In my opinion, a language should be selected that’s still in use today. I mean, let’s not kid ourselves, Latin, while not being an entirely dead language, is certainly not alive and well, either (I guess that makes it an undead language? ). If Latin was adopted, it’d have A LOT of catching up to do to integrate modern words into the language.
Any tongue’s okay for any cosmopolitan community. But please leave Ancient Greek for geeks.
It has a bitter history of being spoiled while used as a lingua franca.
Tod kékluwos χowis ħégrom bhugét. In Latin, I’ll try: Hac audibitur, ovis agro fugit. For emphasis LOL. w like w in english, bh like bh in Sanskrit, ħ like I don’t know, χ perhaps like chi, but it(χ) didn’t get imported into most IE languages.
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Yeah, that would rock. The only real problem is the kind of culture-specific words that wouldn’t necessarily apply to an Italian. Church Latin would be probably the most practical… but not as cool as gamla Ãslenzkan. I mean, did the Romans have a word for Berserker? Maybe they did, I don’t know.
I think this is my first post here for a bloody year or two… wow. time flies when you’re not having fun as well, I guess.
Totius mundi ergo: quid putatis?
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