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Re: Slezan

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 13:00
On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 07:56 PM, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
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> 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).
Yep - and the Romanians still call their language Roman till the present day :)
> The language didn't all of a sudden change > into French - it just got a new name.
Quite so - and few of the people living at the time even realized it was happening, I suspect. Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) =============================================== "A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language." J.G. Hamann, 1760

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