On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:12:55 -0400, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/13/2013 7:53 PM, Jerry Shepherd wrote:> (2) You rightly state, > > ... > > Perhaps one of the Latin experts on the list, Barry Hofstetter could > > chime in and give us his take on this. > > It is generally moderns who wish to reconstruct authentic pronunciation > of ancient languages, and mostly, in my experience, in America. I had a > professor in graduate school who did work at the Sorbonne. He stated > that they laughed at his pronunciation, and simply pronounced the words > as though they were French. Of course, everything sounds better in > French -- ask any Frenchman (is that term still politically > acceptable?). I have no doubt that an 11th century French speaker would > have pronounced Latin filtered through medieval French.
I'm kind of surprised at that - I would have thought that by now that an attempt at a Classical pronunciation would be the norm even in France. But I believe you are right about the transition to the "new" pronunciation taking place in America sooner than it did in e.g., England. -- Will Parsons _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
