Re: [romanceconlang] Language names (was: Greetings and Intro to my projects)

From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 05:15:06 EST


--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@free.fr> wrote:
> En réponse à Padraic Brown <elemtilas@yahoo.com>:

> But if the written language is not different from
> the spoken language, why
> calling it differently?

Well, I suppose there's no particularly good reason
for naming them differently. I think it's mostly a
matter of consistency. That and the fairly rigid form
the written language took from an early age, which
made it different from the more fluid nature of spoken
language.

> Christophe.

Padraic.

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