slang

[Wilson Gray]

The official Latin of the Catholic Church was already barbarized at
the beginning, WRT to the Classical tongue, and has continued to be
"barbarized" or modernized over the centuries.

-Wilson Gray,
representing Saint Louis University High School
1st place
Jesuit Interscholastic Latin Contest (concerned solely with the
contemporary official Latin of the RCCh)
Missouri Province/Wisconsin Vice-Province
17th place
North-American Assistancy
Society of Jesus
1954


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> An interesting quotation from Rich Cohen's Israel is Real:
>
> “Now the Jews have returned their holy idea to the street, where, as is
> happening with the Hebrew language, it has been barbarized and filled
> with slang.”
>
> Not having read the book (I got the line from a review), I don't want to
> deal with the underlying political issue, but the idea that "the Hebrew
> language" has been somehow "barbarized and filled with slang" [because
> of the formation of Israel] sounds silly, to put it mildly.
>
> I suppose, a nation of Catholic priests and Classics professors might
> have the same reaction should someone invent a modern form of Latin as
> the primary language for a yet-to-be-founded new Italian state. I am
> just having a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea. And all this
> time I thought I was a purist!
>
> VS-)
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