2006-11-17 15:06:44 · 41 answers · asked by george 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
QVI MELIORE EST, LINGVA LATINA VEL ANGLICA?
2006-11-17 16:14:30 · update #1
¿Qué idioma es mejor, el Latín o el Inglés?
2006-11-17 16:18:52 · update #2
Quelle langue est la meilleure, le latin ou l'anglais ?
2006-11-17 16:25:05 · update #3
LINGUA ANGLIAE MELIOR EST
2006-11-17 15:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by cdrotherham 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
English
2006-11-17 16:37:21 · answer #2 · answered by Aden 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English
2006-11-17 15:14:29 · answer #3 · answered by Suzanne M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buenos dias!
Spasiba.
Quelle question bizarre! Le latin est plus bref; une bonne base d'apprentissage des autres langues romanesques.
L'anglais est plus moderne et sans doute plus utile dans le monde actuel puisqu'il devient progressivement universel a cause des Etats-Unis pour qui les autres langues n'ont aucune attraction.
Tute due mi piaciono. L'inglese e piu facile. Che lingua ti piace di piu?
Ser gut! Auf wiedersehen! Goodbye! Adieu! Arriverderci! Vale!
Why the the different languages? Trying to find how many of us can cope with foreign tongues? All British are not barbarians, you know. Some of us actually enjoy communicating with other nationals in their own language. A bit difficult with the Romans, of course, but understanding what is on the tombstones gives one quite a kick.
2006-11-18 00:28:01 · answer #4 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English. Over the centuries English has absorbed so many words from other languages - including Latin - that it now has the largest vocabulary of any spoken language in the world. With a larger vocabulary, it is possible to express nuances that are lost in other languages. And this partly accounts for the success of English as a lingua franca*. Of course, the influence of the USA and their decision to adopt English rather than German as their official language, accounts for a fair bit too....
English is so successful that other languages now borrow from it. For example, the Scots Gaelic word for television is "telebhisean" - pronounced "television". Polish for "trainer" (as a kind of shoe) is "trener". I don't think we have to do the whole French "le weekend" thing to prove this point.
* A Latin phrase borrowed into English, meaning French language! :-)
2006-11-17 21:52:53 · answer #5 · answered by keith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shadow knows without actually stating it. Since Latin no longer changes, it has problems expressing concepts that didn't exist in it's time. It would be interesting to see a Latin version of a congressional committee meeting. Probably take at least twice as many words.
I personally, could never wait for the verb to show up although I managed OK in German.
2006-11-17 15:18:09 · answer #6 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The English language is based on Latin!
2006-11-17 15:11:18 · answer #7 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English takes a lot from Latin...so I would have to say Latin
But people still speak English, but Latin is dead...so in that case English
2006-11-17 15:09:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Italian
2006-11-18 06:30:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin because from latin comes all languages. English comes from latin in some way.
2006-11-17 15:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by C6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is widely spoken now unlike Latin, so it's more useful I would say. But, if you speak Latin, then I think lots of people think you are so clever, so it's not bad at all, is it? I don't know which one's better, but I think the best is if you speak both.
2006-11-17 15:23:05 · answer #11 · answered by ono 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋