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shinohai |
pobrecito jurov |
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| 15:09 |
verisimilitude |
Well, I revisited my Wheelock's Latin to find, as expected, my pronunciation was beyond terrible. |
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| 15:32 |
verisimilitude |
I did manage to pronounce some dipthongs correctly by myself, however. |
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| 15:55 |
gregorynyssa |
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-04-03#1033788 << the fact might be of interest to you that American Catholics (those still using the Latin mass) follow the practice of pronouncing Latin as if it were Italian. |
| 15:55 |
snsabot |
Logged on 2021-04-03 15:09:03 verisimilitude: Well, I revisited my Wheelock's Latin to find, as expected, my pronunciation was beyond terrible. |
| 15:56 |
gregorynyssa |
meanwhile, there is a minor tradition within the Episcopal Church of using academic pronunciation, of the sort which would be found in Wheelock's textbook. |
| 15:58 |
gregorynyssa |
personally I have been reluctant to stand for either. I ended up creating my own pronunciation-scheme based on reconstructions of Late Latin. |
| 16:00 |
gregorynyssa |
among other features, the short U's are almost schwas like in English, and C at the end of syllables is pronounced like harsh H. |
| 16:00 |
gregorynyssa |
it is how I imagine St Augustine to have spoken. |
| 16:01 |
gregorynyssa |
unlike academic pronunciation (but like Italianate pronunciation) it is possible to speak very quickly in this manner. |
| 16:01 |
gregorynyssa |
because the stress and the vowel-quantities are largely harmonized rather than separately construed. |
| 16:02 |
gregorynyssa |
if you want to see an interesting reconstruction of pre-Classical Latin: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7278824/ |
| 16:05 |
verisimilitude |
I'll take a look at that soon. |