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| From | Rich <rich@example.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Recent history of vi |
| Date | 2025-12-08 01:35 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10h5a1j$3rsmf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <slrn10jb7eb.17aag.als@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de> <mpm0h0Fi256U3@mid.individual.net> <IkkZQ.697$k6W8.76@fx34.iad> <10h4noh$3n4no$4@dont-email.me> <slrn10jbtsk.1c8f5.als@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de> |
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In comp.os.linux.misc Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote: > The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> On 07/12/2025 19:12, Scott Lurndal wrote: >>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes: >>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 16:31:23 +0100, Alexander Schreiber wrote: >>> >>>> Semi-apropos I was reading an essay by Herbert Spencer last night. He >>>> questioned the British educational system that taught Greek and Latin >>>> because that's what 'educated' people learned even though they had limited >>>> utility in later life. >>> >>> Latin is useful for several reasons; it helps make sense of english, for starters, >>> and it certainly helps when subsequently learning latin-derived (Romance) languages. >> >> The point about Latin and Greek is that all science mathematics, >> philosophy and the bible used to be written in it because it was that >> language of an educated European. > > The bible was not written in Latin because that was the language of an > educated European, it was written in Latin because that was the language > the clergy (from the lowest monk to the pope) learned and spoke and it > conventiently was a language that most of the people didn't speak, so > they needed the clergy as "interpreters". The reason is likely simpler than that. Most books of the Bible are very old, predating modern languages. So it could only have been originally written down using a written language that existed at the time of that writing. At the time, the choices might have been Latin and/or Greek as languages, and given the impact the Romans had on the proto religion that came to be known as Christanity, and the Romans subsequent embrace of the same, having the bible books written in (or translated into -- the more likely possibility) Latin because of the Roman empire embrace of Christanity is much more likely the reason than the "elites" wanting to be sure the mere peasants could not read it. Of course, once Christanity spread across Europe, the elites maintaining their elite status by keeping the bible in a language only spoken by the "properly educated highbrows" clearly is why it remained untranslated to other languages for so long.
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