[UA] A potentiallly UAable profession

Robin Pfeifer robinpfeifer at web.de
Tue Mar 19 00:40:02 PST 2002


David M. Jacobs wrote:

"IIRC, it's part of a move by John Paul II to modernise Ecclesiastical
Latin, the idea being that the Vatican will produce a "modern" Latin
dictionary.  However, the translations are a tad unwieldy; "computer:,
f'rinstance, is translated as "instrumentum computatorum"."

Just a couple of days ago I spotted a Latin-German dictionary in a bookshop
that only contained new words like that, so this already exists.

Robin


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