Re: Latin in the future?

Peter Knutsen wrote:
Does Latin have some useful characteristics that English does not have?

A small vocabulary (which is good in some ways and bad in others), much of it already widespread throughout the West, simple spelling, and, in some ways, a simple grammar. A "Basic Latin" would be /much/ easier to learn than so-called "Basic English", since Basic Latin would mostly be simplified by removing redundant grammatical idioms (such as the dative of possession), whereas Basic English is notoriously simplified mostly by removing words that then have to be replaced by idiomatic paraphrases, most of them nonobvious.

--
John W. Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has become full of /Pooh./"
-- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface
.

Relevant Pages