re: #322 SixDegrees

There is no language which pleases the ear more when sung than Latin.

The Catholics really threw the baby out with the bathwater when they traded Gregorian chants for the ways of the hippy and all his works - fufu muzak tambourine and guitar and drums crap.

Then there’s the language itself - you spell stuff the way you pronounce it. Verbs mostly obey rules. Word order in sentences is loosey goosey so the poets had more latitude. There’s a half dozen tenses of past and future to keep lawyers happy. The Latin alphabet was streamlined to 22(?) letters. There’s no silent ‘e’ like English or ‘h’ like French. The Romans made up the letters, so they fit the language properly, instead of this pounding round pegs into square holes that the rest of us have to do with Roman letters.