Am 02.05.2011 14:21, schrieb Will Evans:
Your faith in the authors of RDA is touching, but it seems to me they assume users live in a vacuum and are incapable of acquiring a modicum of cultural literacy.
And anyway, Latin is not dead as long as English lives. English is, of all non-Romance languages, the one with the most numerous latin roots in its vocabulary. Let's also not forget that in ancient Rome Latin was not the language of the (largely illiterate) general public. Even Cicero, in private letters, did not write high Latin throughout. Nonetheless, the general public understood as much Latin as they needed to understand, and just as well we ought not dismiss our clientele for a confederacy of dunces. B.Eversberg
