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

From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 12:26:59 EST


--- John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:
> Christian Thalmann scripsit:
>
> > > il becko Jowans backalars
> > > sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
> > > yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
> > > co lê corn sew dda li cabast.

> This is clearly a Kerno variant of the familiar
> (to anglophones) English nursery rhyme:

"Kerno variant" indeed! More like the original
from which the English bastardised version comes
from. It is a vague recollection of a
semilegendary event in the early life of John II.

Padraic.

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il becko Jowans backalars
sew ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
co lê corn sew dda li cabast.

.



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