How Do You Like Your Latin Written?

[MichaelF]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1334178' date='Jul 18 2007, 07:44 PM']I was talking about the Latin written in Breviaries and Missals which, of course, is ecclesiastical Latin.[/quote]


Understood. Just wanted to clarify.

[iggyjoan]

I prefer it to be written in english.

Edited July 19, 2007 by iggyjoan

[jeffpugh]

Replying to O/P, I like it written plainly without accents, though it's useful to see if you're learning.. (like me). But still, pronunciation isn't exactly the hardest. Latin is a pretty fluent language.

[Totus Tuus]

Accent marks... but it doesn't really matter to me.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Pio Nono' post='1333969' date='Jul 18 2007, 04:41 PM']Just give me words.[/quote]

[Resurrexi]

I personally can't stand to read Latin without the accent marks. They are very crucial to the pronunciation. Take the word "pueri". One would think it was pronounced "poo-AIR-ee" but it is actually pronounced "POO-air-ee".
Another such word is "judica." Whenever I look at the word without accent marks I want to say "yoo-DEE-ka" when it is actually "YOO-dih-ka".
My Classical Latin teacher always pronounced the word "ancilla" as "AN-kill-ah" when the accent is actually on the penult (next to last syllable) and not the antepenult (the syllable before the penult).

It is also very confusing when verbs are conjugated in all the ways that they can be. It is extremely helpful to know which of the many syllables the accent is on.

I would also like to add that I find macrons to be annoying and of no use since the long and short vowel sounds are almost alike and are usually not even differentiated in Ecclesiastical Latin and I wish Classical Latin books would stop using them because they make the text look ugly.

[MichaelF]

I prefer the macrons only.

However, though this -does- make reading more efficient, it almost universally requires you to have an instructor-based introductory course, so that you may learn how to read pronunciation from context. Without that, you are unlikely to catch the stressed syllables correctly.

If you are only interested in [i]literacy[/i], or are specializing in Classical Latin and are uninterested in the Ecclesiastical, this won't bother you.

[Seven77]

i like my Latin written graffiti style on brick walls.

[Seven77]

i like my Latin written graffiti style on brick walls.

[Resurrexi]

Like in the Roman catacombs?

[T-Bone _]

Romanes Eunt Domus?

[Resurrexi]

Monty Python?

[T-Bone _]

Yep

[Seven77]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1334899' date='Jul 19 2007, 02:01 PM']Like in the Roman catacombs?[/quote]

yeah...but more color. like a mural.

how do you say "Catholic hip-hop don't stop" in Latin?

Edited July 21, 2007 by Seven77

[Thy Geekdom Come]

If I'm reading poetry, I'd like it with accent marks and macrons.

Otherwise, it doesn't much matter to me.

Of course, I don't write with either, normally, because my HS teacher thought it was superfluous.