What Is It that makes the Latin Language so pure & beautiful? “With minor exceptions, Latin pronunciation is as straightforward as is possible. There are precisely five key vowels and predictable consonant sounds that once learned can be replicated across the near entirety of the language. “English, for example, is not like this at all; we are rife with different rules and applications of those rules, because of our strange but endearing development as a language, which was a complicated process of mixing over the centuries. … “But it’s a good starting point for consideration that, in the providence of God’s overarching, mysterious sovereignty and His absolute knowing of beauty’s value for the souls He created, He saw fit to allow such a pure language to develop in precisely the right moment for the birth of the Church.” https://cassiaandmyrrh.com/on-the-beautiful-purity-of-the-latin-language/ The omnipresence of letters m and n, the humming letters, and qu, the beautiful kw sound, make the language most melodious. In the 12/29/2023 entry, Thomas Becket, find the marvel quemadmodum, accent on ad, translated as as! Incubus Ante Natalem The Nightmare Before Christmas This is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical directed by Henry Selick and produced/conceived by Tim Burton. Is the film a Halloween story or a Christmas story? I think it is a rare-for-Hollywood allegory—Resurrection. Creator and Chief, Scorpio Martianus, aka Luke Amadeus Ranieri, classical Latin and Greek whizbang, funny and poetic.
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