Re: Slezan

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:

> Yes, but by then it was far enough to be called
> a seperate Language.
> Calling French 'Vulgar Latin' is like calling
> Scots 'Old English'.
I guess that depends on what you take to be "far
enough"! I mean, when are we going to realise
that none of can read Beowulf without lots of
study? When do WE get a new name for our
language? We haven't had a change since Primitive
West Germanic became Anglian (>English)!

Language is not only a continuum in space, but in
time as well. At some point in time, the French
and Spaniards decided to call their speech
something other than "Roman" (what we would call
VL). The language didn't all of a sudden change
into French - it just got a new name.

Padraic.


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