Re: [AFMUG] OT New word

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:19:03 -0800

Techspeak is a thing. A relative once listened to me talking to another computer/internet aware individual. After, he commented to me: "All the words you two were using were words I knew, but I still didn't understand a thing you were talking about."


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On 12/2/2020 4:04 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

I don’t know what lawyers speak, it doesn’t seem to be English, but I don’t think it’s Latin either.

 

Pharmacists have to read what doctors write on prescriptions, is that Latin?  I thought it was just scribbles.

 

Is Latinx a language?  Maybe like Unix?

 

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My dad said I should learn latin because I could go anywhere in the world and all lawyers and pharmacists speak latin. 

 

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I don't know that it "died", but it's definitely on life support. Catholic priests seem to speak it a lot (I say "seem" because it's not my language, but they're not speaking English).

Plus Latin has been incorporated into many other languages in parts. All the Latin languages, of course (Spanish, Italian, even French), plus English. In bottany and taxonomy Latin is the goto language for naming everything.

So it's not so much dead as not spoken. It lives in many other languages like chocolate chips live in chocolate chip cookies.

 

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On 12/2/2020 2:47 PM, Steve Jones wrote:

with the tremendous amount of language that is latin based, how is it that it died?

 

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote:

Semper ubi sub ubi!

 

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 11:10 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

Latin verb: "boare" means "To cry aloud" First person, present indicative form is "boo"

That's why ghosts say "Boo!"  It's "I AM CRYING ALOUD" but said with a single word.

....at least that's one theory.

 

On 12/2/2020 12:31 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:

Latin words ne(not) scire (knowledge, to know).

Science is from these two words

 

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 9:06 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:

New word for me today.  It was in a comic strip and had to look it up.

Nescient

 

Are you as nescient as I was?

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