Talk:Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur

See also: Expospeak Gag and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness :P (Beware: Timesink.) --Sid 06:25, 30 January 2008 (EST)

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Latin for All Occasions

Might want a link to Latin for All Occasions, with gems in it such as this. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 20:36, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Is this really relevant as its own article?

It's like a paragraph long, and has nothing significant of value that can't be just put somewhere else. The SockPuppetMaster (talk) 22:12, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

It does contain a very important lesson, though. ^{Don't click here} 15:22, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Comment

Caesar adsum iam forte, Pompey aderat. 86.191.125.228 (talk) 21:49, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Use of latin in scholarly writings

Current version of this article "Until the adoption of the printing press in the 15th century, almost all books in Europe were produced in Latin (or in ancient Greek) because all educated people learned classical Latin and it thus functioned as a "universal" language for the "in" crowd." This is tendentious and not even true. There are books written in Old French, Middle English, even a few in Old High German in Western Europe prior to the printing press. Most books produced at this time were probably religious books written in late latin which is about as interesting as post printing press the most popular book to publish was the bible. After the printing press scholars continued to write in latin, NOT because they were snobs but because it was the "English" of Europe, a language accessible widely across the continent, as opposed to Polish, Dutch, Swiss German--etc! I think you'll find that scholars who belonged to larger language communities (such as French speakers, due to large, powerful, and long existing well organized French state) started publishing more and more in their native languages earlier, whereas people who belonged to smaller language communities only used local languages for things of local interest. If they wanted for example a local history to have a wide audience, they wrote it in latin, because nobody over in the Rhineland is going to want to scare up an Irish translator.

During the modern period French took over in many contexts as a lingua franca (lingua franca itself was a different language used during Norman conquest period in the Mediterranean) although less so for scholarship. German also got quite popular for scholarship because they had kickass universities and folks just had to get on board, around 19th century, but the recent unpleasantness ended that, and now English is used most of the time although there are still a few journals that publish in Latin. (If it's humanities or philology or something there's a lot of scholarship in French and I wouldn't be surprised to see other languages, and if the topic is specific to a certain group or country, well, no different than in the middle ages.) I am just speaking of the West. In East Asia there are periods where Classical Chinese was used and also a more recent period where Japanese was widely used, forcing would be Chinese scholars to bone up on Japanese, if unwillingly. 70.171.38.98 (talk) 18:18, 12 January 2018 (UTC)