ANST - Latin Pronunciation In Period & the SCA

[Pat Mullins]

As far as all this goes, Anno Societatis should actually be pronounced (in medieval Latin)
 ah-no so-chee-ay-tah-tees, which pronunciation I have never heard (and probably will never hear) from a herald. Just my tuppence worth.
Lord Padric OMullan, Shadowlands

 On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:37:30 -0600 Jennifer Carlson <JCarlson at firstchurchtulsa.org> wrote:
>Si tu vales, valeo!
>
>There are several points on which classical Latin and medieval, or church, 
>Latin, differ with regards to how they are pronounced.  In classical Latin, 
>the letters C and G are always hard, and V is prononced as a W.  In 
>medieval Latin, C and G are soft if followed by E, I,  or Y, and V is 
>sounded like V.  In medieval Latin, SC is sounded as SH.
>
>One of those old jokes classical Latin students pull on medieval Latin 
>students is to hit them with the following phrase, an inscription from a 
>monastery refectory (dining hall) door:  Papa fidem scit  (The Pope knows 
>the Faith).
>
>Read it out loud, with a hard C, as for good, classical Latin.
>Now, read it out loud, with the medieval "sh" sound.
>
>
>Talana
>Who can't believe she's really passing on such a silly old joke, but who 
>did survive Latin classes that switched back and forth between a classicist 
>and medievalist.
>
>
>On  Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:32:33 PST  "Matthew Kies" 
>highlycafeinated at hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>as was most recently pointed out (see below), the common usage of latin
>>in our fine kingdom stinks somethin ferocious... not only would "vivant"
>>[wee wunt] be more correct than "vivat" [wee wut], but to be accurate,
>>you are not usually meaning "they live" or "he/she/it lives"... usually
>>what you are doing is wishing them well, or congratulations, a long
>>life... in which case any of the following are appropriate:(singular)
>>"VIVE" [wee way] (PLURAL) "VIVETE" [wee wa tay]
>>                       "SALVE" [sul way]     "SALVETE" [sul way tay]
>
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