>Sikily
say sike rn

>>18478967
i can accept hard c and g
but v being pronounced like w doesn't sit right to me
"weni widi wiki" doesn't hit as hard

And you have recordings of Romans speaking like this, yes?

>>18478967
The letter V was also originally pronounced as /w/, so Veni, Vidi, Vici would have been pronounced as /ˈweː.niː ˈwiː.diː ˈwiː.kiː/

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>>18479011
>>18479016
>Vercingetorix
>pronounced Working-getorix

>in Latin the letter C was always a hard C
no, it wasn't
I know plenty of words in Latin that sound completely wrong when pronounced with a hard c.

Also, Latin had k too.
Hard c is effectively identical to k, so that wouldn't make any sense for redundant lettering.

>here let me try to reconstruct ancient Latin diction without any reference to ecclesiastical Latin
this is you
it's also dumb

nobody in their right mind tries this
also ecclesial Latin was phenomenally important to modern reconstructions of ancient Latin pronunciation

this argument works in Greek, where there is no letter "c" and various sounds we associate with "c" are covered by other letters like sigma and chi
but not in Latin

for example, benedicimus versus benedicto

kaisar
seize her

no
cheeser

>>18478967
anastasia is such a bland character. the only reason people like her is because of her design. having read the wn, she's shit nophono cares about.

also larp larp larp sahur nobody speaks classical latin, you can only communicate with people, especially catholics who went to latin school, in vulgate.

>>18478967
anastasia is so fucking hot, i want to breed with her so bad

>>18479124
There are Latin loanwords in Albanian which all have the hard C. The soft-C Latinisms in Albanian come from Romance, like Dalmatian and early Romanian.
OP is gay for using the word "always" which implies throughout the evolution of pleb Latin into late-antique Romance. But early Latin had the hard C until it didn't.