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habarakhe4 <theophilus88@hidden.email> wrote:
Advising someone to ignore length in Latin is like advising themto ignore diacritics in a romance language - the diacritics existfor a reason. Furthermore, any understanding of Latin that lacksknowledge of vowel length cripples the understanding a poetry, oneof the major genres of Latin literature.
Hey now, I wasn't answering a question about vowel length, only a question about the writing system, i.e. "Latin with alot of diacritics, and [...] Latin with almost no diacritics." The vowels are still long in Classical pronunciation whether you choose to write them that way or not. The vowels aren't long in ecclesiastical pronunciation, but knowledge of what _was_ long helps one to know where the accent goes. And that was another thing I forgot to mention to the original poster: from what I'm told, the reconstructed classical pronunciation and the ecclesiastical pronunciations are the ones in most common use today. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/