On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:35:24 +0100, Doctor John wrote:

> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
> <snip>
>> 
>> Further Latin is used in taxonomy and pretty heavily in the medical
>> field.
> 
> IIRC there's a bunch of guys living in the centre of Rome who speak it
> pretty well ;-)

Yes, but I don't know that any of them are *natively* speaking it.  Pope 
Benedict certainly doesn't speak it as his native tongue - that would be 
Austrian (wouldn't it?)

Jim

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