In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...

[Jonathan Lighter]

Lots of us. Kind of.

However, even Attila the Hun, who grew up in Rome as a hostage, would
probably notice our peculiar accents.

JL

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Does anyone actually know how Latin was pronounced?
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> By the ancient Romans, I mean...
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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > "graduate student in history at the University of Virginia," writes:
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> > "=85 _beware_ any claim about this election that =85"
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> > This kid is probably much too young to be familiar with the _BEWARE
> > OF_ THE DOG signs that were once so ubiquitous that even the most
> > casually-learned person was familiar with the inscription bearing the
> > Latin equivalent, CAVE CANEM. I was so young when I came across this
> > that I thought that the Latin was pronounced "cave cane 'em" [kejv
> > kejn at m].
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