Re: [romanceconlang] Vulgar Latin (was: Ninfeano web page)

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 06:37:06 EST


James Campbell wrote:
> I once met an old chap who would read Romanian publications.
> He said he could easily understand it because it was so similar
> to the VL he'd learnt (...).

Perhaps he's especially talented. My knowledge of French and Italian -
plus faded echoes of schoolbook classical Latin - lets me read Catalan
and Rhaeto-Romance with some confidence (though of course not with
perfect understanding), but I can't make head or tail of a Rumanian
newspaper.

-- 
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/


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