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Thread #144011   Message #3328029
Posted By: MGM·Lion
24-Mar-12 - 02:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: How to pronounce this Latin phrase?
Subject: RE: BS: How to pronounce this Latin phrase?
'For a dead language, it is surprisingly changeable.'
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Not really 'dead' in that sense tho, Don. Not current within any actual country to be sure; but for many centuries the lingua franca [NB!] of scholars thruout Europe, & of lawyers.

And who more contentious and frangible and factional than such communities!

~M~