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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:25:40 -0500, paul-bennett@hidden.email <paul-bennett@hidden.email> wrote: > I think the question should rather be "at which point does a language stop being *recognisably* of Latin descent?" That point almost certainly exists (I suspect maybe the 100 sound-change point might be a good hint that you've almost hit it), but you do have to consider the possible values of the word "recognisable". > English for instance is so full of Romance words that many people think it IS a Romance language (at least those who've not studied it, or learned anything about it), but that still doesn't mean it's not Germanic.