Re: [tied] Re: Creole Romance? [was: Thracian , summing up]

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 23742
Date: 2003-06-23

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:28:25 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>Basically, you have the same situation everywhere in the Roman empire
>as in the British or French: after initial confusion the elite learns
>proper Latin (English, French), which then percolates down. The
>question is when this process was stopped

It stopped when everybody spoke Latin as their native tongue.


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