Holy smokes thanks for that, I was hoping to brush up on my Latin and learn a bit of Greek, this will help immensely!
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Robert Lee
Jose Diaz
Glad too help :D
Lucas Moore
Do any anons here have anything on Syriac? I'm a Maronite Catholic and I would really like to learn more about the language, as we do say pray in Syriac during Mass.
Grayson Cox
Connor Moore
Thanks user!
Gabriel Wilson
I am a little surprised that it has so many languages. I mean, why would somebody even learn some of those? There are obviously plenty of classical texts written in something like Latin, Greek, etc. but for some of these languages there are almost no original texts at all. What would possibly motivate somebody to learn a language of which mostly inscriptions survive? It's like some advanced level of hipsterism.
Hunter Martin
What is this image. It's simply bad.
Landon Taylor
I would be careful with such a translation method. Scientia is not usually best translated "science" in modern English, for example.
You might like the original Douay-Rheims translation. You can probably find it on Google Books, but you'll have to search carefully since most of the results with be the Challoner revision. The original translation is very close to the Vulgate, even closer than Challoner, and IMO is underrated as a translation.
Jacob Wright
Oh my dear user, ignorance is bliss.
The rabbit hole of language autism is deep. There are communities of language learners online who love this type of stuff. At least ancient languages are better than conlangs.
Robert Sanders
Wait til you hear about Ithkuil. There are some neat texts in very ancient languages, not many though. I suppose it's for archaeologists and ancient historians, and learning ancient languages is said to be good for cognitive executive control