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The Pope's language: Latin

Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope? He never speaks Italian in public, only Latin.
Doesn't he speak a proper Italian, or is it a conscious way of showing that the Roman Church is /universal/, not Italian? Of course, being an old German university professor, he speaks German and English, and being a Doctor in Theology he has a proper Classical Greek too. But Italian?
Per Erik Rønne
  

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[nq:1]Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope? He never speaks Italian in public, only ... he speaks German and English, and being a Doctor in Theology he has a proper Classical Greek too.

  • [nq:1]Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope?
  • He never speaks Italian in public, only ...
  • he speaks German and English, and being a Doctor in Theology he has a proper Classical Greek too.
  • [/nq] Afair, the first words he said as Pope to the general public were in Italian.
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[nq:1]Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope? He never speaks Italian in public, only ... he speaks German and English, and being a Doctor in Theology he has a proper Classical Greek too. But Italian?[/nq]
Afair, the first words he said as Pope to the general public were in Italian.
Adrian
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[nq:1]Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope? He never speaks Italian in public, only ... he speaks German and English, and being a Doctor in Theology he has a proper Classical Gre
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[nq:2]Am I the only person who has become suprised by ... Theology he has a proper Classical Greek too. But Italian?[/nq]
[nq:1]Afair, the first words he said as Pope to the general public were in Italian.[/nq]
Just to give confirmation, from Italy, by a native speaker... he's addressed the public a few times by now, both officially and unofficially, as it were (he's been round to his old
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[nq:1]Am I the only person who has become suprised by the new Pope? Henever speaks Italian in public, only Latin. ... German and English, andbeing a Doctor in Theology he has a proper Classical Greek too. ButItalian? Per Erik R=F8nne[/nq]
Is it just me, or did I hear, during the announcements, Latin being pronounced as though it were Italian? For instance with /tS/*, as /e/ or /i/ (which con
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This is entirely standard in Vatican Latin, and I think it's fairly commonplace in "Church Latin" (if there's such a beast).

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[nq:1]Is it just me, or did I hear, during the announcements, Latin being pronounced as though it were Italian? For ... kind of new universal pronunciation of Latin by the church? (Surely a lot of Catholics speak languages with no /tS/?)[/nq]
Hasn't Latin been pronounced by the RCCh with modern Italianate pronunciation standards for the past few centuries?

I'm comparatively normal for
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[nq:2]Is it just me, or did I hear, during the ... church? (Surely a lot of Catholicsspeak languages with no /tS/?)[/nq]
[nq:1]Hasn't Latin been pronounced by the RCCh with modern Italianate pronunciation standards for the past few centuries?[/nq]
Could well have been for all I know. (That was the first conclave of my lifetime, so wouldn't have had many chances to notice before). My experi
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[nq:1]/tS/*, universal speak[/nq]
[nq:2]Hasn't Latin been pronounced by the RCCh with modern Italianate pronunciation standards for the past few centuries?[/nq]
[nq:1]Could well have been for all I know. (That was the first conclave of my lifetime, so wouldn't have had ... school in the UK) is that "decimi" would be either /dekImi:/ or /desImi:/; "decem" always /dekem/, and /ae/ usually /a
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[nq:2]/tS/*, universal speak Could well have been for all I ... /dekImi:/ or /desImi:/; "decem" always /dekem/, and /ae/ usually /aI/.[/nq]
[nq:1]Back when Latin was the learned language of Europe, each country pronounced it as if it were the local language. That's how you get "/desImi:/" (originally "/desimai/"?)[/nq]
I think it was; there is an older pronunciation still of Latin in Brita
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[nq:2]Could well have been for all I know. (That was ... /dekImi:/ or /desImi:/; "decem" always /dekem/, and /ae/ usually /aI/.[/nq]
[nq:1]Back when Latin was the learned language of Europe, each country pronounced it as if it were the local language. ... Catulli Carmina sung by a German choir in their national accent. And of course "/dekimi:/" is Kikero's version[/nq]
My dad was taught a

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