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Re: Slezan

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Monday, January 26, 2004, 19:56
--- 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. ===== blaženi ništii duxom&#1100; &#283;ko t&#283;x&#1098; est&#1098; c&#283;sar&#1100;stvo nebes&#1100;skoe! -- Mt.5:3 -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .

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