[Foundation-l] STOP DOUBLE STANDARD!!! OR HYPOCRESY!!!

[Crazy Lover]

"ecclesiastical gree" a strong different pronunciation that classical greek
 
"it is "polluted" with neologism and a creative use of the "old" languages
 
and latin is not artificial it is a below of a tradition. it is different than esperanto a language created by a individue.
 
and it has been writing articles in "ancient greek" (in greece) about modern mathematical and physics topics. it can find in greece public library.

--- On Wed, 9/3/08, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] STOP DOUBLE STANDARD!!! OR HYPOCRESY!!!
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 9:37 PM

I repeat.

It's different: Ortodoxe Church can use "old greek", but in this
case 
they use an old language without native speakers, Jewish church uses the 
Classical Hebrew, but there are no native speakers in Classical Hebrew, 
Hinduism is still using sanskrit for liturgical purposes, but there are 
no native speakers in sanskrit.

The Ecclesiastic Latin is not the language used in the Bible or in 
Ancient Rome (the pronunciation for example is strongly different) but 
it's a language created when the latin was already substituted by 
"vulgari eloquentia". It has *never* had a native speaker, never. For

this reason it's an artificial language (or better an artificial 
"version" of latin) and for this reason it can have a translation of 
modern words 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin#Language_materials).

I cannot think how an "old greek Wikipedia" or a "Classical
Hebrew 
Wikipedia" can translate an article about "spintronics" for
example.

The difference between Latin and old languages still used in the 
churches is that Latin has not lose the richness of linguistic registers 
because, for example, in the XVII century Galileo has written main 
scientific articles in latin 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius), more similar to 
ecclesiastic one that to classical one.

Latin is prepared to face different types of topics.

Ilario

Crazy Lover wrote:
> you are wrong, old greek is used as official language of the eastern greek
ortodoxe church. its greek is the koine dialect with neologism for new things
and concepts.
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> c.m.l
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