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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3525107, member: 19463"]My pet peeve is people of today, PhD's and first year Latin students, who judge each other on matters of pronunciation as if they actually knew the universal truth and it was more important than understanding other points of history. In some cases we may know something about pronunciation as, for example, Cicero may have practiced it but that does not mean much across the entire Romulus to Augustulus span. Yes, I know my man Septimius Severus had a Punic accent but I will not insist on or reject those who say Sheptimius Sheverus but do draw the line at calling him Shemp (Shemp was the fourth of the Three Stooges - or was he second?). Slavish insistence on 'proper' spelling and pronunciation was a product of Nineteenth century British elitist to set themselves apart from the unwashed masses. Get over it. While I will never warm up to the Italians changing every Roman name when they can walk outside and see all those Latin inscriptions, I will prefer that we spend our efforts learning the difference between Maximianus and Galerius and not sweat the presence or absence of the -us.</p><p><br /></p><p>It all of a sudden struck me that "Shemp" might have approved calling Pescennius "Pesky" but for the fact that the word was not used until 1775. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3525107, member: 19463"]My pet peeve is people of today, PhD's and first year Latin students, who judge each other on matters of pronunciation as if they actually knew the universal truth and it was more important than understanding other points of history. In some cases we may know something about pronunciation as, for example, Cicero may have practiced it but that does not mean much across the entire Romulus to Augustulus span. Yes, I know my man Septimius Severus had a Punic accent but I will not insist on or reject those who say Sheptimius Sheverus but do draw the line at calling him Shemp (Shemp was the fourth of the Three Stooges - or was he second?). Slavish insistence on 'proper' spelling and pronunciation was a product of Nineteenth century British elitist to set themselves apart from the unwashed masses. Get over it. While I will never warm up to the Italians changing every Roman name when they can walk outside and see all those Latin inscriptions, I will prefer that we spend our efforts learning the difference between Maximianus and Galerius and not sweat the presence or absence of the -us. It all of a sudden struck me that "Shemp" might have approved calling Pescennius "Pesky" but for the fact that the word was not used until 1775. :pompous:[/QUOTE]
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