[lit-ideas] Re: Is Latin a dead language?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:44:27 EST
In a message dated 1/13/2005 4:40:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Here's a comment from another discussion group:
> Latin is not dead! It's in retirement
Plus, among 'Romance philologists' (so-called), things like French, Italian,
and Spanish, are referred to as 'neo-Latin' tongues. I wonder who the first
to use 'neo-Latin' was. The OED should tell us. Odd, nobody speaks of English
as neo-Anglo-Saxon, though...
Cheers,
JL
Linguisticien extraordinaire.
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