On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:20:31AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:29:37AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > Without downloading a PDF and reading it . . . do you know what Latin > > variant is used in that document? > > No, without download and reading the PDF I wouldn't know what Latin > variant is used in that document. :-) Since it was only a 39K file, > there was no reason for me to worry about downloading it.
I meant "Can you tell me the answer to this question so I don't have to download it then see if I can figure it out?" > > > Is it classical, church, or scientifically bastardized Latin (for > > instance)? I'm curious. > > Yes, to all of the above. It has a chart showing a few pronunciations > including classical which it describes as the reconstructed ancient > pronunciation. It even includes an "English method" which is > basically pronouncing Latin words as if they were English words. Okay, thanks. That answers my question, and makes me want to actually download the thing. > > > I know that in at least some contexts the Latin pronunciation is more > > "dee" than "dai" for daemon, and that "dee" is the pronunciation > > generally considered "correct" for server processes in Unix systems. > > Beyond that, it's entirely possible there are other pronunciations of > > which I am not aware -- though I'm pretty sure "day" is solely an > > artifact of people trying to figure out how to pronounce terms that > > contain the ae (or the æ ligature) without actually trying to look it up. > > The above document describes ae in classical pronunciation as like ai > in aisle and in all other pronunciations like Latin ē. It describes > Latin ē in all pronunciations, except the English method, as like a in > plate. Going by the above the first syllable of daemon could be > pronounced like day. That's rather contrary to what I had learned (which is, admittedly, not a whole lot). I'll give the document a look. Thanks. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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