Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Wait... people *know* how to pronounce Latin now? I thought it was a 
>> dead language, and hence we'll never "really" know what the "correct" 
>> way is.
> 
>   That's not the definition of dead language. A dead language is one
> which has had native speakers in the past but doesn't have anymore
> anywhere. Just because it's not used as native language anymore doesn't
> mean the knowledge of how it's pronounced has been lost. There have always
> been people who know Latin.
> 

Further Latin is used in taxonomy and pretty heavily in the medical field.

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