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[ewx]

Seen on the back of a DVD:

LANGUAGE:	None
SEX/NUDITY:	None
VIOLENCE:	None
OTHER:	None

I'm imagining a mime version of Blue here...

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Hmm. Although I'd heard of Blue before, I'd never heard anything about it — not even what made it quite so unusual.

I might take a look at it, some day, though not in a context where I'd feel uncomfortable about stopping after five minutes if I couldn't stomach it. (-8

I think the Jarman film I most want to see, however, is Sebastiane. Since Latin is normally something I read rather than hear, I'd be fascinated to discover what Latin as a spoken language in an everyday context (as opposed to oratory) feels like.

Naturally, the homoeroticism interests me not at all…

Latin

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

At school we were taught to pronounce Latin with V as /w/, C and G always hard, etc, but with accentuation much like in English. Many years later, my Ph.D. supervisor, who was Italian, was fascinated to hear me pronouncing it this way, as he had not been taught to pronounce it any differently from Italian, with V as /v/, C and G /ch/ and /j/ before I and E, and with the same singsong accentuation as Italian.

Then, at rsymiel's wedding, someone gave a recitation of Latin love poetry, pronouncing it with V and /w/, etc, but with the singsong accentuation, and long double letters, of Italian. The result sounded rather odd to me; but I would guess was the closest of the three to how Vulgar Latin was pronounced. (In classical times, at least; papersky informs that that C was already /ch/ before I and E by the fall of the Western Empire.)