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Posted by PeterMcC on 06/22/06 08:48
Luigi Donatello Asero wrote in
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>> To further the education of mankind, "Luigi Donatello Asero"
>> <jaggillarfotboll@telia.com> vouchsafed:
>>
>>>> It's not what _you_ find; it's what your typical visiter finds
>>>> that counts. Adrienne is right.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sai parlare l´italiano?
>>
>> Nope. I'm your typical no-talent-for-foreign-lingos American
>> (-except perhaps for Latin.)
>
> Not many people can speak Latin outside Italy.
I think that may be a hasty assumption.
I occasionally have cause to refer to Latin inflections when working with
groups of people in the UK. When I ask how many of them studied Latin at
school, I'd guess that around 20% say that they did. And that doesn't
include all those did but who won't admit it in case there's a question
about Latin declensions on its way.
My clients are certainly not representative - I wouldn't suggest for a
minute that 20% of the UK population has a familiarity with Latin - but it's
enough to suggest that there may be considerably more people with a grasp of
Latin outside of Italy than in it.
As an example:
http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/
Radio Finland's weekly news digest in Classical Latin - if you haven't seen
it before, I think you'll find it's pretty compulsive stuff.
The reporting of Finland's victory in the European Song Contest (and there's
a whole new can of worms for non-Europeans) was particularly fine "Lordi,
grex Finnicus graviori musicae metallicae deditus, in suffragio
duodequadraginta nationum ducenta nonaginta duo puncta obtinuit, qui numerus
longe maximus est in historia semisaeculari huius certaminis."
OTOH, Luigi, yours may not be a hasty assumption - perhaps it is a fact. If
so, my apologies.
--
PeterMcC
If you feel that any of the above is incorrect,
inappropriate or offensive in any way,
please ignore it and accept my apologies.
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