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Re: Vulgar Latin (was: Ninfeano web page)

--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@y...> 
wrote:
> --- John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote:
> > Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> > 
> > > > il becko Jowans backalars
> > > > sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
> > > > yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
> > > > co lê corn sew dda li cabast.
> 
> > This is clearly a Kerno variant of the familiar
> > (to anglophones) English nursery rhyme:
> 
> "Kerno variant" indeed! More like the original
> from which the English bastardised version comes
> from. It is a vague recollection of a
> semilegendary event in the early life of John II.
> 
> Padraic.
> 
What incident would this be, pray?
> 
> =====
> il becko Jowans backalars
> sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
> yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
> co lê corn sew dda li cabast.
> 
> 
> .