Mary Anne Marks: "Cor Harvardianum, Cor Nostrum"

Mary Anne Marks delivers the Latin salutatory at Harvard's 2010 commencement ceremonies

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[ilovecupcakesyesido]

so anyone hear that voicecrack... i know its at the end and most people probably didnt even watch this whole thing.

[TokkiDiary]

Who the heck delivers salutatory in Latin? I'd be bored to death.. Graduation is already boring as it is..Time for Harvard to put up a hologram subtitles because apparently, their valedictorians love to bore people with language nobody speaks..

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

@terrendously why not ancient greek, thanks? there is value in studying languages, just for the hell of it, for some. and there is value in studying certain dead languages for all, even. latin is a prime example of this. romance languages are all directly derived from vulgar latin ("vulgar" as in "popular," "common").. latin word roots are quite prevalent in a number of non-romance languages too, like english. latin is a very crucial component of much jargon.. medical terms, etc.

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

@Pollux6721 i agree that her pronunciation is inauthentic, but your pronunciation recommendations are also a bit off; they're just approximations. to nitpick, in reconstructed latin, 'e' represents [e], the high-mid front unrounded vowel. but italian 'e' can represent this sound and [ɛ], low-mid front unrounded vowel, also. and english 'e' in fred represents [ɛ]... and a in car isn't IPA [a], open front unrounded vowel, but r-coloured [ɑ]. and agreed, the aspiration is incorrect.

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

@PianoFreak0127 there seems to be a confusion between extinct languages and dead languages. latin is, for all intents and purposes, a dead language. a dead language is a language which has no remaining native speakers who use the language for most mundane, everyday purposes. dead languages can still live on, being used for specialised purposes. latin is a perfect example of this. i'm not saying latin is stupid, useless, or whatever. i love latin. but it is a dead language.

[martinkun167]

Lord help me...I can't listen to her Anglicized latin accent any longer!

[PianoFreak0127]

@XKS99, first of all it is ENGLISH not AMERICAN, just as SPANISH is not MEXICAN. Second of all english IS NOT the new latin. It is deeply rooted and comprised of latin, but is also formed from Anglo-Saxon German. Thirdly, as for the accent, I think it is more important to focus on the well written speach than nit pick over the finite details

[PianoFreak0127]

@Terrendously. Latin is not a dead language. It may not live on the tongues of all, but it lives in our hearts and minds. A dead language would have NO people that speak it, and no literature written in it. For the literature is the word of the language.

[Pollux6721]

She says salwethey instead of salvete. All "e"-s are "e" as in Italian and as in the English word Fred. Not Freyd. Hospites et familiares, not hospitheys at familiareys etc. And all "a"-s are "a", as in the word "car", not as in "care".

[thesinenobilitate]

@terrendously Gaining knowledge is never a waste of time.