Re: GSF revisited

On 9.5.2007 T. A. McLeay wrote:
[Ray Brown wrote:]
>> 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".


That's what I meant, yes. Though I missed that Παιάνου would be
a more convincing Modern Greek surname! :-)

BTW I know I have replies due in other threads.  This day wen't
down the drain due to a strange XP bug which made the start menu
and task bar freeze so that I had to restart all the time.
It took
a system reinstall, no less.  Now I'm off with Philip jr for the
week's installment of games in the Little Football(*) League.
Will get back later!

(*) The European variety with a round ball, (aka soccer! :-)

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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

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