• spauldo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If English had been a dead language for fifteen hundred years and was only used by people who talk about things only a tiny subset of the population understands?

    Yeah, it would seem pretty mystical.

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      1 year ago

      But that’s my point, it hasn’t been, and it wasn’t.

      Again, Latin was mandatory in my high school for a year, optional for two more. In the 1990s. It’s still optional, I believe. My parents went to church in Latin as kids.

      So no, it doesn’t sound mystical outside the anglosphere, it sounds like crusy old priests, lawyers and boring lessons. Today.