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Re:Who speaks Latin these days? by asveikau on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @01:19PM (#5208485)
> Cursus Linguae Latinae Vivae (Course in the Living Latin Language)

It's been a while since I studied it, but that looks like genitive case to me. I parse it as "Course of living Latin language".

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Re:Who speaks Latin these days? by maw on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @01:28PM (#5208540)
Yes, it's genitive, but "course in" is more idiomatic English than "course of."
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Re:Who speaks Latin these days? by asveikau on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @01:38PM (#5208607)
Sure, but an idiomatic translation of the genitive expression would probably drop prepositions entirely and say "Latin language course".
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