--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:
>
> Nope. Am not including any of the dialects. Only PURE Latin.
"None of the dialects, only pure Latin"? That's like
saying "I don't live in any of the counties of Nevada,
I live in Nevada itself". Wherever I am in Nevada, I'm
in one or another of its counties, and whatever language
you're speaking, you're speaking one of its dialects.
The total set of dialects is the language. A dialect
isn't an impure form of a language.
> Still claim it occurred during the Roman Empire?
God I hope so, or else somebody got all those inscriptions
in marble wrong!
David