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Re: GSF revisited

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 18:17
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 ;) -- Ray ================================== ray@carolandray.plus.com http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== TRADUTTORE TRADITORE

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