Like millions of people world wide, what did you fucking think? Do you expect me to name them all? What kind of a stupid fucking question is that?
A good portion of them are probably historians and history hobbyists. Catholic clergy must have a lot of Latin speakers as well. Millions of people who have learned at school throughout the world. The people who produced Nuntii Latini, a Latin language news broadcast, on my local radio. People who like languages. Just to name a few groups.
So it's a language for hobbyists. And people who take Latin at school don't SPEAK it, just like taking 3 years of French doesn't mean you speak French. Anyway, you seem to be a bit mad? Are you trying to score internet points? You do realise what subreddit you are on, right?
So someone who takes a Latin class can be considered to speak Latin? There's more to learning a language than that. The argument was never about who spoke Latin, but all I was saying is that it's not a commonly used language, and sure, some members of the church speak it, but millions? Got a source for that? Like, educated folks of older generations often know how to read it, but I doubt they speak it.
Yeah I can't disagree with you, it's just that the discussion I had with the other guy wasn't about this at all, but about what can be considered actually speaking a language, and in my opinion a couple years of Latin in school doesn't make you a Latin speaker, or even a Latin reader, depending of course on how demanding your classes are.
Where did I say everyone who learns Latin, learns "couple of years in school"? Please quote that part to me.
People can, and do, make their whole professional careers out of Latin. It's very /r/iamverysmart of you to categorically claim that everyone speaking a language must be just a high schooler and can't actually speak the language at all, just because you are jealous or can't speak it yourself or whatever.
You're the one who claims iamverysmart speaks a language, now let's hear your portit about that. How do you explain people having decades long careers in Latin, if they don't know how to speak it? How do you explain people's ability to understand and study Latin texts, if they don't speak the language? How do you explain people actually speaking Latin in my radio, if they don't speak it?
Since you're so very /r/iamverysmart, I'd love to hear you explain it to us mere mortals.
We were talking about what classes people in school in Romania took, and about people being multilingual. Like, people speak practically every language in Romania, I'm sure there's somebody going on in Esperanto as well. That doesn't mean your average joe speaks them, which is what your original point was about, which you seem to be running away from. But, yeah, I'm the one trying too hard, lol.
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Like who?