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luxtabula t1_iuhkxlw wrote

Big no on this one. Most of the loanwords are used for academic or industrial reasons, not for common conversation. They also have equivalent English words that get the point across better. English still is a Germanic language in every aspect and Latin is a huge curve.

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Banana-Louigi t1_iuht5ry wrote

Holder of a degree in linguistics and speaker (ranging from intermediate to very poor) of two romantic and two Germanic languages and I 100% concur.

Latin is a dead language, dead as dead could be. It's killed off all the Romans and now it's killing me!

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bayo_sandwich t1_iuirm8s wrote

>Most of the loanwords are used for academic or industrial reasons, not for common conversation.

Even then, the loanword usually means something very different than the original Latin. Ambitio, for example. Or religio

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