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Christian Thalmann skrev:
--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...> wrote:How would you derive a language name from Rh�nus (The river Rhine)in Latin? Rh�n�?Note that the language name itself will be an adjective, not anadverb. In fact, I find it hard to come up with a situation where you would need the adverb, since modern romlangs prefer things like "en fran�ais" over *"fran�aisement". ;o)
As it happens _Romance_ as a language name, which AFAIK
actually occurred in Old French (though spelled _romanz_
or _romans_ IIRC) is derived from the adverb _Romanice_,
which extracted from the phrase _Romanice loqui_ was
taken as a noun.
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/BP 8^)>
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"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)