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Yes, it struck me too. It sounds a little bit "singing" - like Swedish or Norwegian.

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The singing way, I heard my teachers use too. Even more rhythmic. But, they did not have the Scandinavian accent soundwise.

When you hear people speak Latin, there is a huge difference in the way it sounds, depending on the origin of the speaker too. And on what choices are made of course.
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Ancient Greek had a grave accent, like Swedish and Norwegian, though the stress was usually at the last or next last syllables of a word.

For Latin I have chosen the pronunciation that is supposed to have been used in the oldest Latin.

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A bacon basket!



Simple and clever. "Weave" the bacon strips around the bottom of a muffin pan covered by aluminum foil. Bake and you have delightful bacon bowls. Stuff it with some salad or whatever your culinary creativity can think of.
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Ancient Greek had a grave accent, like Swedish and Norwegian, though the stress was usually at the last or next last syllables of a word.

For Latin I have chosen the pronunciation that is supposed to have been used in the oldest Latin.

Which is about as easy to do as to know how Middle Egyptian was actually spoken.
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I think Lit should learn Cling-on  :zoinks:
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Ancient Greek had a grave accent, like Swedish and Norwegian, though the stress was usually at the last or next last syllables of a word.

For Latin I have chosen the pronunciation that is supposed to have been used in the oldest Latin.

Which is about as easy to do as to know how Middle Egyptian was actually spoken.

Well, not really. The Romans actually documented how some words were pronunciated. You can also with some certainty deduce the pronunciation by comparing with other languages.

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I think Lit should learn Cling-on  :zoinks:

Nah, Latin is much cooler. Take Virginia's motto: Sic semper tyrannis The literal translation is "So always tyrants" But sic has a much wider meaning than English and German "so" and Swedish "så" (which, btw, Proto-Germanic swa(s) also had). You simply don't need a verb to construct a correct sentence with it.

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In vino veritas - in aqua sanitas  :angel:

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No, wait, it's dative, so it should be in aquae.

Damn, they shouldn't post on Wiki when they don't know the correct forms  :thumbdn:

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Ancient Greek had a grave accent, like Swedish and Norwegian, though the stress was usually at the last or next last syllables of a word.

For Latin I have chosen the pronunciation that is supposed to have been used in the oldest Latin.

Which is about as easy to do as to know how Middle Egyptian was actually spoken.

Well, not really. The Romans actually documented how some words were pronunciated. You can also with some certainty deduce the pronunciation by comparing with other languages.

Yes, really. While you can deduce some by making educated guesses, a dead language is a dead language and the problem is not unlike that of explaining a colour to a blind. There is no common reference because languages evolve.
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Ancient Greek had a grave accent, like Swedish and Norwegian, though the stress was usually at the last or next last syllables of a word.

For Latin I have chosen the pronunciation that is supposed to have been used in the oldest Latin.

Funny, looked in to pronunciation of ancient Greek after I read this.
First link I found said that the ancient Greek apparently spoke the "eu" sound as a Dutch "ui". That would give the sound of ancient Greek a Dutch accent.

Have known a fair bit of classic language teachers, and the choices they made seemed kinda random in the end to me, since they all sounded that different.
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You must learn it from a real expert  ;)

The pronunciation rules for Middle High German, for instance (13th Century):

*w is pronounced as in current English
*ch is always "thick" like in Bach
*ei is pronounced as in current Dutch
*r is pronounced as in "proper" Swedish
*sp, st etc are pronounced as they are spelled
*diu (determined feminine article for third person singular) is pronounced as it is spelled
*h is pronounced something like ch
*all wowels are short, except for the ones with an ^ over them
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