In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...

[Laurence Horn]

There was a nice book we read in grad school on the pronunciation of Ancient Greek and Latin by one of my predecessors here at Yale, Edgar Sturtevant.  If memory serves, verse figured in the detective work, as did interlingual renderings (while very old recordings didn't).

LH

On Aug 10, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Lots of us. Kind of.
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> However, even Attila the Hun, who grew up in Rome as a hostage, would
> probably notice our peculiar accents.
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> JL
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> 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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