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novalis comments on REQ: Latin translation for HPMOR - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 August 2011 10:20AM

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Comment author: novalis 23 August 2011 05:51:53PM 2 points [-]

Medieval Latin and classical Latin are somewhat different -- in particular, Medieval Latin tended to take on the flavor of whatever the native language of its author was. Most high schools teach classical Latin. So you want to make sure that you're getting a translation from a medievalist who also speaks Middle English.