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<blockquote data-quote="Cassiel666" data-source="post: 354829" data-attributes="member: 5205">Latin TitlesI thought giving books Latin titles was kind of exotic when I was 15 or 16, but after I learned Latin in college the charm wore off.&nbsp; Most books titled this way are just wrong.. just because it translates into an acceptable idiom in English doesn't mean the idiom is acceptable in the Latin.That's part of it, but also the kinds of stylized Latin titles most roleplaying books end up with are more Medieval Latin than classical Latin, and the mood I associate such titles with is either 1.Catholic (maybe other people don't think of Catholic as a mood but..), 2.Subversive to the Catholic Mood (i.e. occult), or 3.Intellectual (in other words Descartes or Erasmus or Kant or whoever, and everything else written in the academic standard of the time).&nbsp; I suppose if Latin was actually a language in the setting I could deal with it.. but since it usually (never in my experience but I might as well qualify) isn't..but hey...tempus loquendi... tempus tacendi</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cassiel666, post: 354829, member: 5205"] [b]Latin Titles[/b] I thought giving books Latin titles was kind of exotic when I was 15 or 16, but after I learned Latin in college the charm wore off. Most books titled this way are just wrong.. just because it translates into an acceptable idiom in English doesn't mean the idiom is acceptable in the Latin. That's part of it, but also the kinds of stylized Latin titles most roleplaying books end up with are more Medieval Latin than classical Latin, and the mood I associate such titles with is either 1.Catholic (maybe other people don't think of Catholic as a mood but..), 2.Subversive to the Catholic Mood (i.e. occult), or 3.Intellectual (in other words Descartes or Erasmus or Kant or whoever, and everything else written in the academic standard of the time). I suppose if Latin was actually a language in the setting I could deal with it.. but since it usually (never in my experience but I might as well qualify) isn't.. but hey... tempus loquendi... tempus tacendi [/QUOTE]

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