Re: prinkipia

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

I thought the college still spoke in Latin,  to the extent of creating neologisms
for such words as xerographic copier.

bc

So ask the Pope?

"Dr. Mario Diaz" wrote:

> My latin teachers in high school taught me that it was prinkipia.
> They argued that in classic latin there was no soft c.
> I remember having discussions with Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, the polish physicist
> about pronunciation in latin.
> He argued that being a dead language there was no way to know how was it
> actually pronounced.
> But I argued that by looking at the derivation into the ancient forms of some
> languages, i.e. Spanish, you can get a
> hint of the way it could've been pronounced. But  the c for many words evolved
> into the ch in italian, while in modern Spanish
> it did into the soft c. So it may still be an arguable matter. But my latin
> teachers were very knowledgeable...
> mario
> Mario Diaz
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