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--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@hidden.email> wrote:
> I incidentally found this interesting article
> on a different
> subject while searching for an online version
> of the
> reichenau Glosses.
>
> P.S. I subscribed CONLANG from two addresses
> only to be able to
> crosspost this... I promise not to abuse this.
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/ysjdyz>--
Interesting article, indeed. Though I don't
understand the melodrama over "last words" that
philologists are supposed to have. The change
from "Latin" to "Romance" to "Italian" or
"French" is just a change of names. If languages
form dialect continua through space, they
certainly form analagous continua through time.
In stead of being able to walk from village to
village from Lisbon to Paris experiencing
numerous changes along the way, if we could have
lived _in_ Lugdunum from the time the Romans took
possession until now, we'd experience a different
kind of continuum.
As Gaulish gives way to Vulgar Latin (and perhaps
donates some words) and then gives way ultimately
to Provensal -- certainly there is enough wonder
in this progression to mitigate or even overturn
any consternation over "last words", and the
notion of the "gloss being half empty or half
full"!
Padraic
>
> /BP 8^)
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