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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> 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.
>
>

Real, proper Latin? What do you base that on (remember you
said 'everybody')?

Torsten