As a graduate of a catholic high-school where I had three years of latin and got THE language award, all I can say is "Ahhhhh! Ouch... My Head hurts from all those hard 'C's"
I was taught the 'Classical' pronunciation where 'Ceasar' was pronounced 'Kaiser'. Imagine that, a historical figure, who has had food titled in his namesake (not necessarily after him). I must discontinue this thread before my descriptive vocabulary 'declines'. Cheers, Craig On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 14:54:08 -0500 Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pre-modern Greek didn't have our letter C, just k, always hard. > > Latin is more of a problem. Classical pronunciation is the same > as for k, k being used only in a few words starting ka.... one of > which gives us our word calendar. The Roman Catholic Church > has favored an Italianate pronunciation in which c is hard before > a, o, and u, soft (like our ss) before i and e. Where a Greek > noun ended in -os, its Latin cousin usually ended in -us, the > o of Old Latin having changed to u. > > At 06:47 AM 6/6/02 -0700, you wrote: > >Geeky in a different way: > >Aha, Cerebus = Kerberos! So the "k" is hard in Greek? > >And how is the Latin version pronounced? "Serebus" or > >"Kerebus"? > > > >Geeky in the computer kinda way: > >I want to point out a distinction in free|open source > >software that Microsoft in particular uses. The BSD > >license > >(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html) > >allows others to use such licensed software however > >they see fit, as long as credit is given. The GPL > >(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html), > >however, requires that software built with GPL > >software must be GPL as well. That is why M$ claims > >the GPL is a "virus" and "un-American" (???), because > >they would be forced to give it away. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
