Re: Classic, Normal, and Vulgar Lingo
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 22, 2000, 23:08 |
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I wrote:
Indeed. Especially not if you are from Thema Armeniakon, as the Doukas
family was. Basil II was also accused of speaking "Pöbelsprache", while
his brother John was "gut geschult". But then we all know that Basil had
...to leave urban refinement to his brother. His natural milieu was the
army camp, and Caesar would not have had anything to teach him.
it should have been.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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