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

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:26:33 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>--- 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')?

If everybody speaks it, that makes it _real_ Latin. With a Gaulish or
Iberian accent perhaps, and with a word or two from the substrate, but real
Latin nevertheless.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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