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

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> 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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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
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I guess you intend to speak here not about Latin but about an
"Verkehrssprache". I am not sure if the translation in english should be
correct, but it will be something like "traffic language". The so-called
"substratum" is an argument against people speaking Latin as their
mother language.

Alex