Re: Language reconstruction question
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 1, 2002, 7:34 |
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In a message dated 10/29/2002 08.13.25 PM, peter-clark@BETHEL.EDU writes:
>The classic example is Latin. If you take French, Spanish,
>Romanian, Portugeuese, et al and throw them into a pot, out comes something
>akin to Late Vulgar Latin
Or something mutant kin to Dr. Gode's Interlingua (IALA), LOL...
> which is not the same as Classical Latin, which
>they teach in schools. [. . .] Vulgar Latin is just the natural progression
of the >language as spoken by the common folks and garrison soldiers.
Well written basic definition there. _Saluta_!
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