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Re: Old Languages

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Thursday, October 4, 2001, 20:23
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Roger Mills wrote:


> It's relationship to modern Jav.
> seems to be about the same as literary Old English to modern Engl., or
> Latin to Romance langs.-- closely related, but not the direct ancestor.

Er. OE _is_ the direct ancestor of ModE.

Padraic.