The Bizarreness of Renaissance Latin

Renaissance Latin is not a spoken language that anyone is actually communicating with other humans in. Renaissance Latin is sort of a performance language. Humanists are showing off their elaborate knowledge of this language using vocabulary and constructions much more obscure than anything Cicero would have ever said on the street or in an oration or to anyone. If classical Latin is walking Renaissance Latin is doing an elaborate gymnastics routine. That's a good thing. Yes, it described that. I've tried to read some of the sort of the ole Latin poetry from the Renaissance. It could be a little taxing. Sometimes I send them truly choice Renaissance Latin sentences to use to punish students who've been bad.