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Latin is no dead language to the Roman Catholic Church. In Latin of sorts its services are held, its official business transacted. For its priests, seminarians, missionaries, the Church's nonclassical Latin is lingua franca. And, since the Popes' encyclicals are issued in Latin, its literature is still growing. But few lay Catholics know enough Latin to understand the words of the Mass. Last week was published a book (Your Catholic Language-Sheed & Ward-$2) which aims to teach Catholics Latin...
...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...
Delhi broadcasts in Urdu and Hindi. And A.I.R. hopes for a lingua franca that would make broadcasts from Delhi understandable to all of India. Stuck with the job of making radio interest the ryot is India's Radio Chief Lionel Fielden. Dapper, dark-mustached, youthful Broadcaster Fielden came to Indian radio two years ago from Eton and Oxford by way of B.B.C. What the ryot likes is folk music, drama, dirty stories. What he gets from Etonian Fielden's programs is clean amusement and instruction. The instruction, however, has to be well disguised. Instead of lecturing the ryot...
...Gloro there are 18 suffix forms to denote different parts of speech, verb tenses, case endings. There are no other rules of grammar. It looks and sounds even more like a hodge-podge of Latin, Italian and Spanish than that more famed lingua franca, Esperanto, which it considerably resembles. Its roots were chosen with great care, however, from various languages, especially English. Dr. Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff...
...people speak it as their native tongue and another 17,000,000 speak it besides their own. Nearest world-competitor is Spanish, with a little more than half as many. And "no other language is spreading so fast or into such remote areas." English looks like the lingua franca of the future, but probably not in its present form. What will it look like? Says Mencken: it may look like English, but it will sound like American...