Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 06, 2009 at 20:03:41 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: How old...? (Again??) posted by John on January 06, 2009 at 18:46:24:
Wonder if your cousin used the English pronunciation for his Latin, while the priest, of course, would use the "received" ecclesiastical pronunciation. Maybe we should ask Roger.
At the time of the Vietnam war I edited a story by Julian Pettifer, for '24 Hours', about an operation by the Korean Tiger division, by the sea half way up the peninsula. Leaflets warning the local population to clear out of the way had drifted across into a neighbouring area, and an unexpectedly large number of Vietnamese turned up on the beach. The Korean soldiers spoke no Vietnamese, the Viets spoke no Korean, but they got on in Chinese, by drawing ideograms in the sand. Neither side could pronounce the language, but they could read it.
It was an amazing scene. I've never forgotten it.