En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
> Tristan scripsit:
>
> > I have my doubts as to whether Cicero had spoken English ;)
>
> Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit!
>
LOL (after a check at a Latin dictionary ;)) )
>
> A private joke. My mother the English major (but without regiment)
> always
> insisted that she had dated a "full stop" in high school, no matter
> what
> my father and I said to dissuade her.
>
Maybe she *did* date a punctuation mark... Though I have to wonder what they
could do together... ??!
>
> Obviously that would be in a conworld in which the P-Italics conquer
> Italy and
> Western Europe, and then their language breaks up into descendants.
> Latin remains only a a single inscription of dubious provenance:
> Manios med fhefhaked Numasioi.
>
LOL. Is there anything on the web about P-Italic languages? I think they are
all extinct aren't they? But my name itself comes ultimately from Greek. I
doubt that the change would still have to occur by the time of the borrowing...
Christophe.
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