Maybe because it is just reserved for medical terminology?
2007-02-12 17:35:16 · 8 answers · asked by *~*~*~* 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Latin is dead for a reason. Believe me! I spent years trying to learn the language. Latin is so unbelievably complicated. The language kept changing and only high members knew the "proper" way to speak it. However, 60% of the English language, and most others, is based on Latin (Latin roots, whole words, etc).
2007-02-12 17:47:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, Sarajka is right. Classical Latin is unbelievably and unreasonably complicated.
On the other hand, what could be more beautiful than Catallus' "ave adque vale"? It makes me cry just to think about it.
Yet scholars stopped using Latin as a lingua franca centuries ago, and even RC priests a few decades past, partly for the reasons she cites.
There was an attempt to introduce a grammatically simplified Latin, which would have made a far better universal language than Esperanto. But it didn't catch on.
So we're stuck with English.
2007-02-12 23:30:09 · answer #2 · answered by obelix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are some people who speak Latin, actually. They have special meetings where they can talk to each other. But nobody is a native speaker of Latin. Nobody learns Latin when they grow up, so everybody who speaks Latin is also more comfortable with some other language. So they mostly use the ones they're more comfortable with.
2007-02-12 17:38:32 · answer #3 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry I don't know of a Lebanese website for you, but I can answer your first question. My husband's cousin's son stopped speaking Polish after he was about 3 years old. He had been living here for about a year and decided he wasn't Polish anymore, he was an American and didn't want to have anything to do with the Polish language. His mother just kept speaking to him in Polish so that he would understand it. He refused to answer her in Polish, but knew what she was saying to him. Just this year, now that he is eight (I think - he could be seven, I can't remember!) he has started to fool around with a few words now and then. He was at my house visiting me and we were watching TV, and he asked me a whole sentence in Polish, I responded in Polish, and he got shy and answered me in English, but he's trying! Just keep speaking Lebanese around the house and the kids will use it someday.
2016-05-24 04:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we dont start speaking it again because it is dead ,which part of dead do you not understand???
than we would be speaking a ghost language
2007-02-12 17:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
it is not dead we still use it all the time , medicine , law , education to name a few!
2007-02-12 17:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
GO TO A CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ASK A PRIEST...HE MOST LIKELY CAN CONDUCT MASS IN IT..IT IS IN REGULAR USE IN THE VATICAN...
2007-02-12 17:41:55 · answer #7 · answered by Weedman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if it's dead, why SHOULD we start to speak it again?
SMH
2007-02-12 17:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by creole lady 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋