Originally posted by Slavyanskiy:
-PS - about the comment from another poster about different dialects being used to pronounce the ChSlav texts, that is very interesting...but seems almost as bad as people mispronouncing Church Latin and calling it a dialect. Just an off the cuff thought, not being disrespectful, but seems that it would be good to have it said the same everywhere if possible.
CIX!
Just a thought - Church Slavonic has never been pronounced uniformly in history. Is there a need to start now?
Also, there is no such thing as "Church Latin" - the Church simply used the Latin around it. The so called "Church Pronunciation" of Latin is simply Italian, and until the 20th Century, was never used in the history of the Church, except in Italy from the late Middle Ages onward.
Of course, this is all coming from a fellow who uses an Anglican pronunciation of Latin and used to drive the other members of his former SSPX parish nuts with it.
My two cents!
In Domino,
Edward
