Re: Slezan

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> I thought ecclesiastical Latin was descended
> from the Latin of the
> Vulgate, which was (later) Vulgar Latin, not
> Classical?
The Vulgate isn't written in VL as far as I can
tell!

> Anyway, formal/literary English is also a
> conlang in this sense.  An artificial
> construct based on a natlang but grammatically
> distinct from all natural dialects.
I think it does change in ways CL didn't. Read
good literature from the late 20th century and
from the middle 19th - there's a good bit of
change. Very little of it's underlying grammar; I
think it's mostly style and lexicon.

Padraic.


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