> real pronunciation was quite different to how you hear it quoted in media today, e.g. Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki.
What you call "real pronunciation" is the pronunciation in the Classical dialect of Latin[0].
What you hear pronounced most often is the Liturgical[1] dialect, which is certainly how I learned to sing Latin in choir in college (a secular school) and I'm pretty sure the Liturgical dialect is what's most commonly taught in Catholic schools. (I'm not Catholic and I didn't attend a Catholic school, but that's my understanding.)
Given the scientific revolution's roots in the Renaissance[2], I presume many scientists use pronunciation somewhere between Liturgical and Classical Latin.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin
> Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki.
That's Liturgical vs. Classical dialects of Latin.
I don't know where this idea that the "ci" group is pronounced "ki" came from (or "cae" / "ce" is pronounced "ke"). Given that both Italian and Romanian preserved them as "tchi" / "tche" (so Caesar is "Tche-zar", not "Ke-zar" as I read somewhere), I have some strong doubts about it.
Re:Spartan School (2019)
by ThomasWinwood on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:17AM
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Much like the majority of the Latin-speaking world, Italian underwent a sound change where [k] softened before a front vowel. The original [k] can be found in Sardinian and the now-extinct African Romance.
Romanian adopted the Latin alphabet in the 19th century and the spelling was intentionally based on Italian. So it's not a good representative for this particular argument — of course it spells it this way, because it was intentionally chosen to spell it this way by importing Italian spelling rules for these sounds.
Think of it similar to Latin where real pronunciation was quite different to how you hear it quoted in media today, e.g. Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki.