This is not my invention, it's seriously considered by some politicians. The advantages are:
-There would be no catfight between the nations because Latin is nobody's national language (except for the Vatican).
-It belongs to our cultural heritage, and many our words come from Latin.
-The Vatican would be pleased, and t would also reflect that the vast majority of people here are Christian.
-It would make communication easier if everyone spoke the same second language in Europe. (Although English can already be considered as such, I guess.)
NOTE: Latin is not a dead language. In the Vatican it is the official language, and new words are added regularly, such as washing machine (fullonica electrica).
What do you say?
2006-10-11 22:35:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Offocially, they have already adopted Esperanto a neutral language constructed in 1887 with no native origins. In practice however english is probably that the most commonly used language.
2006-10-11 22:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that would be a bit ridiculous! English is already in use, and they also hire interpreters. I don't see why our officials should learn another language. That would be wasting money. What's more, if Latin is the language of the Vatican, then we definitely shouldn't use it. Europe is non-religious. Why should we adopt a language that's only spoken by religious people? What's more, it's only used by priests or the Pope. I don't think the people really use it.
I'm French and I don't see why using English should be a problem. I understand that it's all about power, etc. But sometimes, they really just should stick with the language that most people can use, namely English. Anyway, they have translators.
2006-10-12 06:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by Offkey 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly not, and for two reasons.
The vocabulary extensions which are needed to refer to things which didn't exist in Roman times are bound to be argued about. The ones the Vatican have made up are sure to be strongly Italian-influenced, like their washing machine. You would end up with something more like Latinised Italian than Italianised Latin.
The neatest sentence structures in Latin are ARCHAIC, and correspond to ARCHAIC simplified methods of thinking. The post-Renaissance intellectual revolution called the "Enlightenment" actually took off shortly after all the universities in Europe stopped using Latin for lectures, textbooks and examinations, and started using their national languages instead. Some commentators have suggested a cause-and-effect relationship here, and I think they have a good point. The modern idiom would be "learning to think outside the box", and Latin was a rather cramped box.
2006-10-12 08:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by bh8153 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After being forced to sit through Latin for one year (and of course this serves no purpose), I would have to say no.
And who cares about pleasing the Vatican anyway. The Vatican has 'departed' from anything truly good a long time ago.
I believe English is the language of commerce and trade. They can use that!
2006-10-12 05:44:34 · answer #4 · answered by vividtoy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think politicians already agreed that is not a good idea. Politicians also were thinking to invent a new language as official language in Europe. They figured out that it is not good idea because you can not force people into something or decide what language should be official. It is better that we all speak our own languages and EU Parliament should keep interpreters.
2006-10-12 05:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by nelli 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have good reasons. But I am afraid it will take a long time for people to learn the Latin language.
2006-10-12 05:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by lene123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, hardly no-one speaks latin, and i love europe because of it's diversity of languages, language makes out a culture!
2006-10-12 05:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by speedy_biondalez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
popoular latin is not to far trom modern italian, but latin can't be eu's language because doesn't have lots of modern words. latin change for some reasons!!
if you mean classical latin..
-YOU ARE CRAZY
-YOU HATE EUROPEANS
if you ever studied latin you know what I mean
2006-10-13 13:27:24 · answer #8 · answered by koneko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like an excellent idea, but americans lack the necessary ability to master Latin. Besides, people would begin to say that USA is not following separation of church and state, etc, etc, etc, etc,etc, etc, etc
2006-10-12 16:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I just wanted to say sorry for giving you a thumb-down to your answer to my question, I really didn't mean that, I wanted to give you a thumb-up but somehow my hands went to the wrong side. sorry.
2006-10-13 04:21:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋