Cardinals call on Pope to save Latin from last rites

Times OnLine ^ | October 24, 2005 | Martin Penner

[AnAmericanMother]

EEEEEEKKKK! Linguist in the house! Run for your lives!

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Since our choirmaster is big into the idea of not stopping the flow of air, that makes sense (and boy is it causing me trouble, because my transition from chest to head voice has always been lazy, with a click or glottal hesitation on a leap of more than 2-3 steps . . . old habits die hard, but we're working on it . . . arggggh!)

If you sing a Greek upsilon instead of an English "EE" in Kyrie, it moderates the initial K quite nicely . . .

[Dumb_Ox]

Seminarians are overloaded in the language requirements. Most are required to be fluent in Spanish, then they have a little Latin and less Greek, throw in some Hebrew, and they're not going to remember much of anything. Especially with the failure of the American educational system to systematically teach language, it's a recipie for linguistic neglect.

[mike182d]

Here's a novel idea: how about the men of the Church take the time to learn the language of the Church?

Just a thought...