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Originally posted by jimvance
And I think Latin was the preferred language of the classical world.
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Classical as in during the Roman empire, yes.
Classical as during the humanistic time, yes, but only together with ancient Greek (and biblical Hebrew), and only for scientists and the clergy.
Classical as from 1600 until the industrial revolution, nope.
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Latin is now the preferred language of science
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No this is not true!! This used to be the case for a long time, but is no longer the case nowerdays. English is the preffered language of science! Any use of Latin in science is only a legacy of times gone by. Simply look at any publication in science and you will find hardly any Latin.
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and (Latin) would be a good language to translate Aikido names into IF they had kanji attached to them (we talked about this before).
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No, for the majority of people this would just mean replacing one set of strange and alien words by another. Another problem would be that due to their different origin and context one can not expect any clear and non-ambigues relation between the concepts within those languages.