loan words

TonyProst at aol.com TonyProst at aol.com
Thu Jul 15 12:06:43 EDT 1999


In a message dated 7/15/99 5:46:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jwest at Highland.Net writes:

<< 
 the latin liturgy makes use of a legitimately latin phrase.  that phrase was
 taken into a song.  those are the facts.  There is nothing at all un-latin
 about the phrase "kyrie eleison" any more than there is anything un-english
 about the word "kindergarten" (a german loan word!)
  >>

	The question is whether a petitioner to Tiberias (or Sejanus!) would 
have used the phrase to him, when asking for mercy for himself of his family. 
I expect not.

Regards,
Tony Prost
All Nonnos All Day
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