My personal opinion is that it is not silly to speak any language I learn as a language.
If I learnt Latin as a ... "physics" or a "programming computer language", then I would deem it silly. (because it's not for speaking neither it has evolved so).
I like to continue myself in the traditional medieval and postmedieval method when Latin was taught as a quite working and efficient medium of communication. But I'm not doing it because I miss such a medium (I've got English). But because I'm learning "a language". I would have a slight problem learning a language and not treat it so... (maybe not so big problem, but I think it's just not so efficient - even more so when we talk about natural languages).
I'm not forcing anyone to anything, I simply like to treat languages as languages. (the other way, in my opinion, makes the learning artificially and unnaturally hard(er) <- and people had the same opinion for centuries... the tradition has changed in the last 100/150 years I believe ).
But that's just my opinion.
If I learnt Latin as a ... "physics" or a "programming computer language", then I would deem it silly. (because it's not for speaking neither it has evolved so).
I like to continue myself in the traditional medieval and postmedieval method when Latin was taught as a quite working and efficient medium of communication. But I'm not doing it because I miss such a medium (I've got English). But because I'm learning "a language". I would have a slight problem learning a language and not treat it so... (maybe not so big problem, but I think it's just not so efficient - even more so when we talk about natural languages).
I'm not forcing anyone to anything, I simply like to treat languages as languages. (the other way, in my opinion, makes the learning artificially and unnaturally hard(er) <- and people had the same opinion for centuries... the tradition has changed in the last 100/150 years I believe ).
But that's just my opinion.