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It seems I ran my mouth a little in the Otoko topic without being quite certain what I was talking about. I asked my friend/acquaintance (the latter is probably closer to the truth but maybe if i hope enough it's the former) Tolkien (the living BZPower linguist, not the dead LotR linguist) if Latin counts as a dead language, and he said no. Guess I should have consulted him on the matter before causing a ruckus.

 

That being said, the crux of my main argument wasn't that Latin fits the exact linguistic definition of a dead language, but that nobody speaks it on a daily basis, and thus fits a more casual definition of "dead language", which Maori emphatically does not fit. Thus, my original argument is preserved on the difference between using Latin words vs. using Maori words.

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Lyichir

I thought you might be conflating "dead language" with "extinct language". The latter is a language which is no longer known or used in any context, while the former simply refers to a language which is no longer used in general parlance.

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No, if I was going by the definition of "extinct language", then I would have been stopped cold by the other person mentioning church hymns. Actually, turns out he was right about the linguistic definition of dead language, and Latin does indeed not count as dead because it has descendant languages.

 

Of course, that doesn't mean that I agree with his point about using Latin words in Bionicle being the same as using Maori words in Bionicle.

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