That’s irrelevant.
The RM has decreed that any posts in a foreign language which are not very common phrases must be translated.
In the last month or so, there have been two Latin posts that were exorcism prayers.
Now, when YOUR side is the one pulling that garbage, you have no basis for complaint or incredulity when expected to comply with the RM’s instructions.
My ability to understand Latin is not the issue, and I’m presuming that being a person of reasonable intelligence, that you understand that not everyone DOES understand Latin, Catholic snobbery notwithstanding. You’re not one of those people who thinks that just because you know something that everyone else should as well, are you?
Or are you going to tell me that you expect that everyone else who reads your posts knows Latin?
You know, common courtesy has really gone by wayside. My grandmothers, who spoke very little English and were not highly educated, at least had the common courtesy to speak English around those who did not understand their mother tongue because they understood that it was insufferably rude to speak a language you knew others did not understand in front of them. The reason being is that they didn’t want the people to think that they were being talked about in a disparaging way.
Now, in the above mentioned cases of the exorcism prayers, that’s exactly what the situation was. They were posted in Latin. Why would you suppose they did that if not to do it n full view of others, expecting that they wouldn’t understand and snickering about it to each other.
The little glitch in the whole thing was that there WERE others who understood Latin and recognized it for what it was.
So that provides the perfect example of why it’s insufferably rude to speak a language you know others don’t understand in front of them.
OK.
So, are you two going to comply with the RM’s instructions, or do you feel that you are exempt because YOU know what it says, which does not make it a commonly known phrase as in *adios* (example provided by the RM)
FWIW, my uneducated, old country grandmothers had more class in their little fingers than most of the snobby Catholics on this forum have in their whole bodies.
Really. I didn't see that. If that's true, then it speaks volumes about the abysmal level of theological understanding here on FR. In any event, Latin is no more a "foreign language" in a discussion of Christian theology and praxis than is Greek or Hebrew or Slavonic. With all due respect, English is the language which is foreign to Christian theology.
The RM has decreed that any posts in a foreign language which are not very common phrases must be translated.
Next time, just post:
"Heu, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice."
["Listen, would you repeat everything you just told me, only this time say it in English."]