>>44918204Yeah, Latin has like 150% to 200% the semantic density of English. I find it easier to write Latin than to read Latin (Poetry is a nightmare. In fact, Latin prose and Latin poetry are practically 2 different languages, and then you deal with the fact that different time periods used different Latin. Old Latin has lots of strange vowels like using "ei" for "e" or using "-d" for the ablative. Golden Age Latin is generally the highest quality, but authors vary considerably (the comic playwrights and satirists used more "slang" words and coined a bunch of redundant words for the same things as words used by the orators and historians). Even being from a different part of the Roman Empire meant using different words for the same things, with the added "benefit" of how ridiculously easy it is to create new words in Latin. E.g. dictamen, dictus, dictum, dictio, dictatio are used to mean almost the same thing. Latin seamlessly turns adjectives into nouns as "substantives", verbs into nouns as "supines" and "gerunds" or with many noun-forming endings like -or, -tio, -tas, -men, adjectives into adverbs with -e and -iter, verbs into adjectives as "participles" ending in -tus and -ns, nouns and adjectives into 1st-conjugation -are verbs, nouns into adjectives with -osus, -aris, -ilis, -ger, -fer, -ax. Silver Age Latin is "lower quality", with less diverse vocabulary, yet more prolix and pleonastic, and they started purloining more words from Ancient Greek (often to replace Latin words that already existed). "Late Latin", depending on the writer, has features of so-called "Vulgar Latin" creeping in. Medieval Latin is trash and written by people who couldn't even pronounce it correctly (E.g. caelum spelled as coelum), and they started purloining Germanic words to replace Latin words that already existed. Renaissance Latin improved the spelling somewhat, and they recovered many Golden Age Latin words. New Latin is connected to the printing press...
