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[twistedapple]

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the

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[graymalkn]

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

*cough*cough*criticaltheory*cough*deconstructionists*cough*cough*

[graymalkn]

While 'a mass of Latin words' may well have that effect in English, I find Latin Mass to have, if anything, the opposite effect, especially if done in Gregorian chant. In my experience, the Latin version makes for a clearer, more holistic and transcendent experience than the vernacular. To benefit from this, it does help if you understand Latin, but I'm not sure it's required. Orwell might disagree, of course, his agenda being rather different.

Robert