not a dragon any more...

"I don't understand. How can I be posting if you blocked me."

Clearly due to a glitch you are abusing. I have checked and double-checked to make certain that that is you and not a different user on my blocked list and it indeed is you.

trysts,

"Yes, I can imagine"

Yeah. I'm currently also taking a break from my studies in order to study languages (Latin right now) though I do plan on getting a master's eventually and continuing it down the road. Though I'll probably do more focus on theology. Religious studies usually focuses on an outside perspective so there is much inside perspective that is gathered but generally the people are coming from the outside. Theology is much more focused on the inside of the given religion and its beliefs.

And thank you for finding some place and someone else to debate these things with. Greatly appreciated for my head. :)

Oh, no problem, I can always find a Christian to give a headache

Quite sufficient evidence?

trysts,

Yes, There are many Christians on the internet who will be greatly happy to debate you on this matter.

Well...you're just going to have to trust me that you are there.

Trusting never has been a nice thing to do... :-P

CensoredReality, you've been told multiple times that you are on newengland's blocked list, you shouldn't be able to be posting in his topics, you're taking advantage of a glitch to do so. It doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong, you should not be posting in his threads. If you are going to abuse a bug to post where you shouldn't be able to post, you can't complain about the OP taking further action to stop you. Whether he was right to block you in the first place is an entirely different subject which you are free to discuss elsewhere, but not here. If you continue to post here I'll add another report.

@newengland7, if you haven't already you might want to check your blocked list just to make sure. EDIT: He did make sure. CensoredReality, you're there. newengland, you maybe should black out the rest of those names.

"newengland, you maybe should black out the rest of those names."

Thanks. It'll take a moment but I'll get those other names blacked out.

Ciao and chow.

Say hello to Cicero , Livy, Virgil, Seneca, Caesar, Pindar, Ovid and everyone's favorite, Catullus.

"Say hello to Cicero , Livy, Virgil, Seneca, Caesar, Pindar, Ovid and everyone's favorite, Catullus."

Ha ha! I'm hoping also to be able to translate medieval works as well :D

Classical latin is the base - and the best form.   

Well considering we use the Erasmian pronunciation when using Classical Latin and that was from the pre-Reformation...

Latin's a dead language so to say some form is "best" would mean having omniscience to know how Latin was and originally was. My professor has us using the Erasmian pronunciation but he certainly has nothing against Medieval Latin.

Latin was a dead language in the time of Erasmus. It was a living language in the time of Cicero. That's where the qualitative difference lies.

"Latin was a dead language in the time of Erasmus."

Erasmus was also a Rennaissance man. The study of classical period was being revived back then. Though Latin was still the pre-dominant language of choice for the Church of Europe at the time (and used in scholarly works). Erasmus though was the one who gave us the pronunciations of what now is used in classical Latin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin

Interstingly enough, there appears to be no consensus when Late Latin (between Medieval and Classical) begins and Medieval Latin begins either...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Latin

Speaking of Late Latin--we have read some texts from the Vulgate (as well as some of the names you mentioned--Ovid, Vergil, etc.).

Apparently, there was a period of time (18th century if I recall correctly with the Petrine reforms) that Russian Orthodox seminarians spoke Latin more fluently than they did Russian.

I have quite a bit of Traditionalist Catholic friends. I'll be able to understand what they say better as well even though what they speak is Ecclesiastical Latin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin

And don't forget Vulgar Latin (not to be confused with swearing in Latin).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin

A French speaker in my class is always quite able to catch on to what the Latin words mean as French is basically a corrupted form of Latin being a Romantic language.

A latin language, not a romantic language :)

Although French is the most romantic in the world, mon amour.

Romantic, as in deriving from Roman language (not romance!)

What makes a language romantic? Just because it sounds nice doesn't mean it's about love... :-P

"What makes a language romantic? Just because it sounds nice doesn't mean it's about love... :-P"

It stems from the Roman (Latin) language. Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, etc.

Semitic languages include Arab, Syriac, Hebrew.

Germanic languages include English, Dutch, German.

So it's Romantic, not romantic.