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To: SampleMan
Unknown? Only, since the late, great, Dewy became the god of government schools.

If your goal is to further the Tower of Babel then, yes, it's best bet to denigrate and avoid Latin.

Every jerk who wants to use a word definition that has changed twenty times in the past century is free to do so as long as they avoid Latin which has well know, unchanging, definitions and syntax.

Basically, avoiding Latin aids in altering the Truth while sticking to Latin is a major force for keeping the Truth unchanging as it's passed down over generations.

People who have changed every major doctrine they claim to believe at least a few times in only five hundred years naturally prefer the mailable nature of whatever language they use when quibbling about price with a hooker, talking to a divorce attorney, or purchasing contraceptives.

7 posted on 06/26/2014 3:37:43 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin
Basically, avoiding Latin aids in altering the Truth while sticking to Latin is a major force for keeping the Truth unchanging as it's passed down over generations.

That's true. The development of Latin as the language of the Church, and the fact that it's now a dead language, seems providential to me. We shouldn't refuse this gift.

9 posted on 06/26/2014 3:43:42 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Rashputin
You would have a point, if anyone understood Latin, but no one learns it any more.

Church translations still go back to Latin/Greek which addresses vernacular morphing. However, a nonscholar translating Latin will still have the same issue when they use vernacular definitions to understand it.

10 posted on 06/26/2014 3:47:01 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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