Latin Cases Controversy: The Old Order & The New Order

Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella “Vir Petasātus“ — 67% off Black Friday Sale! ⬅️ What is the correct order of the cases in Latin: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative, Vocative or Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative? Unchallenged for millennia, the traditional order that the vast majority of students and teachers still use today has met a new rival in the 19th annd 20th centuries, promoted by some well-meaning scholars from Northern Europe. But is there New Order truly better? I examine this question in detail in this video. Feel free to share your opinion below! 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella “Vir Petasātus“ 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: And if you like, do consider joining this channel: 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: 👨‍🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons: 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: 🌍 polýMATHY website: 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: 👕 Merch: 🦂 🦅 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart 00:00 Introduction to Latin Cases & Declensions 02:44 Latin Cases in Context 06:03 Origin of the Case Names 07:34 Localistic Theory 08:43 Origin of the Case Names 10:54 Another Theory: order of cases in a typical sentence 12:22 The Nouveau Order: Syncretism 14:25 Rask’s and Other Syncretistic Orders 19:00 What does it matter? 20:15 3 Key Reasons 20:56 Is the Syncretic Order Better? 23:15 A benefit of the Traditional Order 28:19 Memorization 30:18 Wheelock, LLPSI, Athenaze: 33:00 Perils of Collapsing the Matrix 34:55 Spaced Repition in the Traditional Order 38:08 Critique of Allen & Brink (1979) 40:11 Review of Key Reasons 43:59 What you should do 44:54 Outtakes Key Source: Allen & Brink (2014) The old order and the new: A case history: