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[David Stockhoff]

On 2/19/2011 5:21 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> . As you say, Latin and English would be nearly indistinguishable in
>> Severian's day. What I think is that the language represented as Latin in
>> BotNS is to the contemporary language of Severian's day as Latin is to the
>> English of today.  And I don't think the language Thea speaks of (which is
>> actually the English we speak)  holds that position.  It seems more distant.
>>
>> I other words I think:
>>
>> <Terminus Est>  :<Sev's language>  :: Latin : English
>> <language Thea mentions>  :<Sev's language>  ::<really ancient language>  :
>> English
>>
> I agree with all this. But another question is whether real Latin is
> being used in _Long Sun_ (in 'vox populi. vox Dei', for instance). It
> might be, because I take it that the Whorl cultures are deliberate
> reconstructions, inspired by memories of 'our' time (which, as Cyriaca
> explains, were restored to humans by computers at the end of the First
> Empire). On the other hand, one might wonder whether actual languages
> were among what was restored; the books in Ultan's library would seem
> not to be books handed down from 'our' time, but books written at the
> end of the First Empire, presumably in current languages, enshrining
> knowledge from an earlier time.
>
I agree with this.


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