Re: The Promise of Forth

Jerry Avins wrote:

Marc Olschok wrote:

...

I think, Terry Jones once claimed that (as far as practical usage is
concerned) Latin was killed during the Renaissance, because of the strive
for classical Latin instead of the living medieval variant.

The emphasis on classical Latin served the need for international
communication. The "living medieval variant" had become Italian in
Italy, French in France, Spanish in Spain, etc.

Nope, the living variant was spoken by the church, and developed much slower
(i.e. not at all) than the successor languages you mentioned. The only
difference between "classic" Cicero Latin and the church Latin is that the
first comes from the century before Christ, and the second from 400 AD.

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Bernd Paysan
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