Why wasn't Latin pushed as the European single language?

Because Romans were really bad at everything but philosophy

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Because no one speaks it, and it would be seen as a catholic take over. English is the only relevant language in the 21st century because of American dominance.

>>76952122
but it was, for like over 10 centuries
even church was in latin until relatively recent times in spain

>>76952122
Because teaching barbarian invaders and peasant masses Latin is a hard task. The European nobility, scholars and clergy did speak Latin. But even then, there were regional differences.

Rome was a flea market of borrowed gods and conquered peoples, a bargain basement on two floors, earth and heaven, a mass of filth convoluted in a triple knot as in an intestinal obstruction. Dacians, Herulians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Hyperboreans, heavy wheels without spokes, eyes sunk in fat, sodomy, double chins, illiterate emperors, fish fed on the flesh of learned slaves.

There were more people in the world than there have ever been since, all crammed into the passages of the Coliseum, and all wretched.

And then, into this tasteless heap of gold and marble, He came, light and clothed in an aura, emphatically human, deliberately provincial, Galilean and at that moment gods and nations ceased to be and man came into being — man the carpenter, man the plowman, man the shepherd with his flock of sheep at sunset, man who does not sound in the least proud, man thankfully celebrated in all the cradle songs of mothers and in all the picture galleries the world over.

Clearly it didn't make that much sense if it's dead.

everyone important spoke latin

It was for a long time, then thanks to Napoleon French became the language used for diplomacy, trade, etc, then with British/American economic dominance beginning in the late 1800s English became the lingua franca.

it was but then luther came and liturgies switched to the languages of the rabble

>>76952122
cause how do you know who's big shot if everybody speaks the patrician language?

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>>76952249
some catholic churches still use latin even though the vatican doesn't want them to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32brXXx5k8

>>76952703
all catholic churces use latin to some degree, atlest when priest transforms water into wine they say the prayer in latin