Re: Slezan
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 13:00 |
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On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 07:56 PM, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
[snip]
> 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
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