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To: Natural Law
That is the beauty of it and why it is also the language of law and science. Because Latin is dead it no longer changes and evolves. Unlike English, Greek, and even now Hebrew, its meanings are fixed permanently in time. Whoo hoo.

FAIL...Regardless of the fixed meaning of the Latin, it only does you some good if Latin is your normal language...

If your English or German language keeps changing, then the definition of the Latin words change...

Back when I was in school, taking a couple of years of Latin, the instructor told us reading and writing Latin was ok, even though the sentence structure was ridiculous, but no one speaks Latin because it's about an impossible Language to speak...

While people in the Catholic religion write, read and sing Latin, I'll bet you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who actually converses in Latin...

269 posted on 05/29/2011 12:19:02 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
"FAIL...Regardless of the fixed meaning of the Latin, it only does you some good if Latin is your normal language..."

Is that your learned opinion? You better get that out to all of the medical, science and law schools in the world. What in the heck were all of those idiots thinking?

272 posted on 05/29/2011 12:31:38 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Iscool
Back when I was in school, taking a couple of years of Latin, the instructor told us reading and writing Latin was ok, even though the sentence structure was ridiculous, but no one speaks Latin because it's about an impossible Language to speak...

Are you admitting that for a couple of millennia, much of the world did something that your instructor told you was ridiculous? And you believed him? The NEA and the ACLU have yet another great graduate of the American public school system.

303 posted on 05/30/2011 1:45:59 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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