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Article #5314Re: English pronunciation of Latin
From: Anders Blehr
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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Robert Stonehouse wrote: > Does anyone else find it annoying to have Latin sung as if it were > Italian, in cases that obviously demand that it sound like English? I > can even think of a case where the name Lucinda was sung Luchinda, > though there was no Italian, Latin or any such thing in the song. In which cases is there an "obvious" demand that it sound like English more than Italian? Or Latin, for that matter? Why not /lukinda/, and why not the Italian pronunciation? - Anders. -- Anders Blehr (ablehr [at] sn.no | http://www.sn.no/~ablehr/) // "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any // significant number of users want fixed." -- Bill Gates
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11289b,551beaee80785e30 X-Google-Attributes: gid11289b,public X-Google-Thread: 105352,62c38b0c3db28d6c X-Google-Attributes: gid105352,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,551beaee80785e30 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: Anders Blehr <ablehr@sn.nono> Subject: Re: English pronunciation of Latin Date: 1997/01/31 Message-ID: <32F1B330.2C32@sn.nono> X-Deja-AN: 213409737 references: <587ugn$o0u@nimble.mta.ca> <5892mm$hst@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <58a4be$sk9@nimble.mta.ca> <58fsns$emr@news.enterprise.net> <58lblq$5tt@news1.io.org> <32EDD073.5691@anteo.it> <E4q6H7.HAw@nonexistent.com> <32EF84CC.56ED@netvision.net.il> <854698087.29617.0@cisew65.demon.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Scandinavia Online mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ablehr@sn.nono newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.classics,humanities.classics x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)