--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
I might agree, but disagree that a Wikipedia-produced
encyclopedia in
the language effectively captures it. Does the Latin Wikipedia properly
capture the cultural heritage of Latin, for example, or merely the
perspective of English, German, French and other speakers writing Latin
as a second language? More importantly, does having a new article on
quantum mechanics written in Latin contribute anything that the extant
corpus of Latin writing doesn't?
No - but writing about Virgil in Latin will be. As would writing about any
number of other works in Latin. Some things (esp humor and meter) simply do not
translate well.
-- mav
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