The mention of the Catholic Church's use of Latin made we wonder: if you're going to resurrect Latin as an international language, which pronunciation are you going to use -- the reconstructed classical pronunciation of Cicero et al., or the Italian-influenced pronunciation of Church Latin? For example, Caesar's <i>veni, vidi, vici</i> would be pronounced something like "wainey, weedy, weeky" in the former but "vainy, veedy, veechy" in the latter.<p>And then there's the traditional English pronunciation, which assumes that Latin is pronounced more or less the same as English: e.g., <i>mater</i> is made to rhyme with "later".