Yes? I think you may have missed my point in the shuffle.

What I’m saying here is that Latin doesn’t make sense as a mystical, secret language for magic because it was too common. I’m not saying it wasn’t the language of scholars, I’m saying that not only was it the language of scholars, so every treatise on optics or history would have triggered accidental lightning bolts, but it was also a commonly spoken language as well.

Hey, you know what is lingua franca for science while being widely spoken? English.

Does that sound mystical to you?