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To: annalex

Church Latin- feeleokway

Been awhile, but I think Classical is - feeleeoak.

The no silent letter comment has me going back to HS again trying to remember.


2,148 posted on 01/30/2006 12:54:20 PM PST by xone
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To: xone

Generally, classical Latin is even closer to letter-by-letter phonetics than Church Latin, which is influenced by Italian. For example, "caesar" is "k-eye-sar" in classical, "chehzar" in Church.

The phonetics that basically follow the intuition of an English speaker is legal Latin, where "bona feeday" becomes "bone a feyed". But I doubt lawyers have any use of "filioque".


2,150 posted on 01/30/2006 1:11:10 PM PST by annalex
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