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Re: Some help with Latin

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Friday, October 5, 2007, 18:10
BP Jonsson wrote:
> >I guess my new sig is extremely fitting here... >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient > à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil > ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, > c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)
Hmmm, who has Uriel Weinrich been cribbing from? Wasn't it he who said "a dialect is a language without an army and navy" ? And now this-- seems to me he also said/wrote (somewhere) "The only language that doesn't change is a dead language." :-)))))))

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Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>