Re: GSF revisited

T. A. McLeay wrote:
> R A Brown wrote:
[snip]
>> I guess if Alexander had conquer the west and his descendants had
>> defeated the Carthaginians, the Greek, not Latin, would have become
>> the auxlang of the whole of medieval Europe. We could then have a
>> scenario in which in 1903 a certain Professor Josephos Peanou
>> proposed reviving a "Greek without flexions" as an artificial
>> auxlang    :)
>
>
> Isn't that exactly what Benct was suggesting: "Παιάνος spoke a
> 'Ephellenic' language derived from Greek, and the only classical
> prestige language of his Europe was Attic and Koiné Greek?". Παιάνος
> is would obviously be Latinised as "Paeanus" and then in Italian
> would be "Peano".
McNabbit! So he did! That darn Παιάνος made me think of Apollo
(classical allusion), not Italian mathematicians.

Sorry BPJ, it's that senility thing again   ;)


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