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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5857 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes  Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 5 04 June 2009 at 11:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have found this website:
http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/~draco/docs/voccomp.html which is a glossary of computer terms in Latin! For example: address 1. (memory location) subst. locus (memoriae, in memoria); numerus octeti 2. (net location, URL) subst. inscriptio (interretialis vel interneti) 3. (e-mail) subst. inscriptio (cursualis) electronica 4. (to select a memory location) vt. locum (memoriae) eligere crash 1. (about computer systems: to fail completely so that the machine has to be rebooted) vt. corruere; collabi; the system ~ed systema corruit 2. (about programs: to make a computer system crash) vt. diruere aliquid; evertere aliquid; the program has ~ed the system systema a programmate dirutum est 3. subst. collapsus,us m. The discovery of this website makes me wonder how an book on engineering, special relativity or quantum mechanics would look like in Latin, as well as other languages such as sanskrit or native american languages( where their society has not integrated into our "modern life")? Anyone has examples here? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6036 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 2 of 5 05 June 2009 at 12:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Latin is not so far removed form modern usage. Some of these terms are very much alive, for example octet in computer science, or locus in biology.
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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5857 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 3 of 5 05 June 2009 at 3:15am | IP Logged | ||
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But how often do you see a modern text written in Latin? Imagne a political text or scientific text in Latin instead of the usual ancient texts.........
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| guesto Groupie Australia Joined 5743 days ago 76 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 4 of 5 05 June 2009 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
Today that is true, but Latin was used right up into the 1600s for academic texts, long after Latin as a living language was dead. So at that time it would have been a case of "modern texts written in Latin". I wonder how corrupted the Latin used by people like Newton was... Edited by guesto on 05 June 2009 at 7:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 05 June 2009 at 9:38am | IP Logged | ||
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There are some Neo-latinists around, such as those magnificent people who write the EPHEMERIS. Nuntii Latini universi.. In all respect, and at a much lower level of competence, I personally also treat Latin as a totally normal living language in my multiconfused log. As late as yesterday I have made a plaidoyer for the use of the word "compositor" in Neolatin - apparently this title didn't exist in the antiquity, so I couldn't find it in my dictionaries. However it has certainly been used in Latin since medieval times where this became a special kind of musician, separate from the performer, and I'm going to use it freely from now on. Call it corrupted Latin, but in this special case I vehemently support corruption.
I can see from the tables of contents for my multiconfused log that I have written - in Latin (or something ressembling Latin) - about Chinese dinosaurs and exoplanets the 16/12-08, about naked singularities the 9/2 and about galaxies with two black holes in the center 13/3, but that's really not enough. I'll try to find some suitable themes and write something more about popular science in order to keep Latin alive - we all have to do our share. EDIT: I have added a few comments about Latin internet terms in my log. Edited by Iversen on 05 June 2009 at 3:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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