30-05-2023, 05:53 PM
I don't know how many members of this forum study Latin at school. I did study it and, although I have been forgetting it, it helped me to lose the reverential respect that is usually held for it.
Every time I read that the script can be Latin, or a sequence of Latin abbreviations as proposed here, I never cease to be amazed. I always ask myself and others the same question: Can anyone believe that more Latin can be known today than the educated people at Emperor Rudolf II's court in Prague knew?
Whenever I have said the same thing, someone has replied that in the 17th century they would have already forgotten the system of abbreviations and ligatures of the 15th century. And with this type of approach I am already unable to follow the debate.
Every time I read that the script can be Latin, or a sequence of Latin abbreviations as proposed here, I never cease to be amazed. I always ask myself and others the same question: Can anyone believe that more Latin can be known today than the educated people at Emperor Rudolf II's court in Prague knew?
Whenever I have said the same thing, someone has replied that in the 17th century they would have already forgotten the system of abbreviations and ligatures of the 15th century. And with this type of approach I am already unable to follow the debate.