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■ #5964. B&C の第62節 "The Earlier Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary" (2) --- Taku さんとの超精読会 [bchel][latin][borrowing][christianity][link][voicy][heldio][anglo-saxon][history][helmate][oe]

　一昨日に Voicy heldio でお届けした「#1546. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (62-1) The Earlier Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary」の続編を，今朝こちらのアーカイヴより配信しました．
　同著の第62節の第1段落の後半部分，But で始まる部分から段落終わりまでを，ヘルメイトの Taku さんこと金田拓さん（帝京科学大学）と超精読しています．21分ほどの時間をかけて，じっくりと10行半ほど読み進めました．2人のおしゃべり，蘊蓄，精読にかける熱い想いを汲み取っていただければ幸いです．
　精読対象の英文を，前回取り上げた箇所も含めて掲載します（Baugh and Cable, p. 81) ．ぜひ超精読にお付き合いください．

62. The Earlier Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary.
From the introduction of Christianity in 597 to the close of the Old English period is a stretch of more than 500 years. During all this time Latin words must have been making their way gradually into the English language. It is likely that the first wave of religious feeling that resulted from the missionary zeal of the seventh century, and that is reflected in intense activity in church building and the establishing of monasteries during this century, was responsible also for the rapid importation of Latin words into the vocabulary. The many new conceptions that followed in the train of the new religion would naturally demand expression and would at times find the resources of the language inadequate. But it would be a mistake to think that the enrichment of the vocabulary that now took place occurred overnight. Some words came in almost immediately, others only at the end of this period. In fact, it is fairly easy to divide the Latin borrowings of the Second Period into two groups, more or less equal in size but quite different in character. The one group represents words whose phonetic form shows that they were borrowed early and whose early adoption is attested also by the fact that they had found their way into literature by the time of Alfred. The other contains words of a more learned character first recorded in the tenth and eleventh centuries and owing their introduction clearly to the religious revival that accompanied the Benedictine Reform. It will be well to consider them separately.

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