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Re: Classic, Normal, and Vulgar Lingo

From:<raccoon@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 22:05
> -----Original Message----- > From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On > Behalf Of BP Jonsson > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:36 PM > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > Subject: Re: Classic, Normal, and Vulgar Lingo
> BTW I once listened to a lecture on Byzantine historians. Among their > fovorite complaints against militarist-become-Emperors was that they could > not speak correct Greek -- or "Rhomaika katholika" as the phrase goes! :-) > --, and yet these purple-clad sword-rattlers were generally blue-blooded > natives of Constantinople. It is a much later period, of course!
What's Rhomaika? It looks to me like it should mean Roman, but I know that's not right, since the historians were complaining about incorrect Greek. Eric Christopherson raccoon@elknet.net