shinohai: pobrecito jurov
verisimilitude: Well, I revisited my Wheelock's Latin to find, as expected, my pronunciation was beyond terrible.
verisimilitude: I did manage to pronounce some dipthongs correctly by myself, however.
gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-04-03#1033788 << the fact might be of interest to you that American Catholics (those still using the Latin mass) follow the practice of pronouncing Latin as if it were Italian.
snsabot: Logged on 2021-04-03 15:09:03 verisimilitude: Well, I revisited my Wheelock's Latin to find, as expected, my pronunciation was beyond terrible.
gregorynyssa: meanwhile, there is a minor tradition within the Episcopal Church of using academic pronunciation, of the sort which would be found in Wheelock's textbook.
gregorynyssa: personally I have been reluctant to stand for either. I ended up creating my own pronunciation-scheme based on reconstructions of Late Latin.
gregorynyssa: among other features, the short U's are almost schwas like in English, and C at the end of syllables is pronounced like harsh H.
gregorynyssa: it is how I imagine St Augustine to have spoken.
gregorynyssa: unlike academic pronunciation (but like Italianate pronunciation) it is possible to speak very quickly in this manner.
gregorynyssa: because the stress and the vowel-quantities are largely harmonized rather than separately construed.
gregorynyssa: if you want to see an interesting reconstruction of pre-Classical Latin: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7278824/
verisimilitude: I'll take a look at that soon.