Re: why is Japanese (spoken) nothing like Chinese?


Ar an triú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:

> > This lead to ridiculous phenomena like the way Latin is spoken in Germany
> > today (with the "c" corrected to be pronounced as a [k] before all vowels
> > some 50 years ago, but most of the rest still wrong. (Greek is worse).
>
> German choruses usually use [ts] for <c>, e.g. in "Crucifixus."

My flatmate’s choir varies its Latin pronunciation according to the piece (I
forget exactly what pieces got the more classical and what pieces got the
more church pronunciation), but [ts] for <c> is not something they use.

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