| User | Thread poster: Flavio Ferri Benedetti Off topic: Welcome to the new Forum about Ancient Languages :) |
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Flavio Ferri Benedetti 
Switzerland
 Member (2002)
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Hello there!
This is Flavio, I am co-moderating this new forum along with Adam. We hope you'll enjoy discussing about Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit et caetera, here with us.
Let's see how it goes 
PS: I will be out for two weeks, so it's likely that you won't read me until July 11th!
Love,
Flavio (ENG>LAT and SPA>ITA moderator)
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Arcoiris
United Kingdom
English to Spanish
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I am very pleased to see a new forum dedicated to ancient languages. I wish I had paid more attention when I was at school and learning Latin as part of the curriculum
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Annamaria Leone
Italy
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WOW!
I hope we will discuss also issues concerning reconstructed (ehm, I'm not sure on the English term!) languages, such as Indoeuropean, I mean. They are ancient languages too!
Bye 
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ANB0368
Australia
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Hi, Adam Bartley here. Although Flavio and I specialise in Latin and Ancient Greek, I think that the term 'Ancient' can be broadly interpreted here to include issues related, for example, to Ancient Chinese, Old Persian, Akkadian or what have you, as well as the 'interpolated' languages from which they arise. Hopefully between us all we can cover a fairly broad sweep.
Look forward to hearing more.
Dr Adam Bartley
Department of Ancient Classics,
University College,
Cork
Annamaria Leone wrote:
WOW!
I hope we will discuss also issues concerning reconstructed (ehm, I'm not sure on the English term!) languages, such as Indoeuropean, I mean. They are ancient languages too!
Bye |
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PRAKASH SHARMA
India
Member (2007)
English to Hindi
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| | It's good to see such kind of forum | Jun 24, 2004 |
As I am involved in Sanskrit language as well. This forum will be of more than interest to me.
PRAKAASH
Freelance Translator of English, Nepali, Hindi and Sanskrit to four of the same.
+977 86 530738
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lai an
New Zealand
Chinese to English
| | Look forward to discussion on Classical Chinese... | Jun 25, 2004 |
This forum is a nice idea.
Classical Chinese has long been regarded as a necessary part of Chinese language studies, for Chinese and foreigners. A certain amount of classical Chinese is still used in modern standard Chinese,particularly in proverbs and sayings.
I'd be interested in others' views. Is Classical Chinese increasing or decreasing in popularity? How does its status compare with that of other classical languages?
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Rob Albon
United States
Member (2004)
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| | Continuing importance of Classical Chinese | Jun 28, 2004 |
Lesley McLachlan wrote:
...Is Classical Chinese increasing or decreasing in popularity? How does its status compare with that of other classical languages?
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Lesley, if you want to read Confucius or Sun-zi, Classical Chinese is necessary. Yesterday I just got a book on Sun-zi with Classical Chinese and side-by-side Japanese gloss and translation. I think Chinese philosophy cannot be truly appreciated, or at least the quality of a translation cannot be evaluated, without knowing Classical Chinese. Classical Chinese also seems to be a permanent part of the topography of modern Chinese, where it is frequently quoted, and, to a lesser extent, modern Japanese.
[Edited at 2004-06-28 01:17]
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xxxkapardi
India
Sanskrit to English
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| | The socalled dead language | Aug 23, 2005 |
I am new member to the site. I am very happy to see such
forum on ancient languages. I'd appriciate Flavio for including the 'socalled dead language-Sanskrit' in the forum. I'd expect more posts on 'The mother of Indian languages.'
Thanks,
Kapardi
Flavio Ferri Benedetti wrote:
Hello there!
This is Flavio, I am co-moderating this new forum along with Adam. We hope you'll enjoy discussing about Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit et caetera, here with us.
Let's see how it goes
PS: I will be out for two weeks, so it's likely that you won't read me until July 11th!
Love,
Flavio (ENG>LAT and SPA>ITA moderator) |
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Flavio Ferri Benedetti
Switzerland
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Dear Kapardi,
thank you!
Yes, Sanskrit is so important for Classical languages - and I would not say it is dead, as I would never say Latin is dead.
Best wishes!
Flavio
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Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Member (2004)
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kapardi wrote:
I am new member to the site. I am very happy to see such
forum on ancient languages. I'd appriciate Flavio for including the 'socalled dead language-Sanskrit' in the forum. I'd expect more posts on 'The mother of Indian languages.'
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Yes, I'm eager to read and discuss some postings on Sanskrit which is one of my languages of interest. I would add that it's `The mother of Indoeuropean languages' -- I hope it's not an exaggeration in any way
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drkpp
India
English to Hindi
| | little correction | Feb 16, 2006 |
It is ot mother but rather a grand daughter of indo european group of languages.
indo-european--indoiraaniyan--indoaaryan--sanskrit
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