Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> I don't like this idea of "borrowing".
> This suggests that Latin is a kind of foreign language.
> And I also somewhat disagree that French is a language that has

evolved from

> Latin as if in a kind of phonetic freefall.
> Connections between oral Latin to become French and written Latin

were never

> severed to the point of making Latin something foreign to oral

varieties.

> The notion of "regular" evolution is somewhat artificial.
> The word siècle "century" is regular as regards the vowel e > iè
> it's irregular because it should be siègle with g.

Shouldn't it be *sieille or *sile if it were regular?

> This suggests this word has not severed connections with written Latin.
> Latin until a rather recent time was a kind of diglottic upper variety.

Richard.