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On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
IMO one of the main reasons there are so few
Germano-Romance conlangs is that most of the
Germanic languages already have their vocabularies
shot through with Romance material (Icelandic and
Yiddish being the main exceptions and English
being the extreme example). The conlang that
comes closest to Anglo-Romance is in fact
Jespersen's IAL Novial, which was/is largely
a Romance vocabulary grafted on an English
grammar (not a bad idea for a pan-European
IAL IMHO).
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
(Tacitus)
Actually, interestingly enough Yiddish has a layer of Romance material that comes from its earliest stages. For instance, the relatively common word _bentš_ "bless" (also borrowed from Yiddish into some Judeo-Englishes) comes from Latin _benedicere_(sp?). There are other words, but i can't think of them at the moment.
-Stephen (Steg)
"they could have been either really racist
or really fashion-conscious!"
~ margaret moran cho