Re: OT RE: For French speakers only
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- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 05:24:42 -0800
Please take this offline.
"Boivin, Patrice J" <BoivinP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: OT RE: For French speakers only
Did I get that right? You characterized the Roman Empire as unholy?
It was only Christian for about ninety years before Rome fell and the
Bizantine Empire continued where Rome had left off, but that doesn't mean
pre-Christian times were "unholy".
LOL
Patrice.
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From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: March 8, 2004 2:17 PM
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Subject: Re: For French speakers only
Phrase "lingua franca" literally means "the languge of the Francs". It is
a
medieval
term, from the times of Carl the Great, the ruler of the Francs who was
crowned for
an Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (not to be confused with the rather
unholy one
that preceded it) and the language of the Francs was to become the new
official
language of the empire which encompassed more or less the whole Europe,
including
the infamous village in today's France. Thus the term "lingua franca". It
wasn't
to be. Instead of the term "lingua franca", we should use the term "lingua
saxonica",
because it was the language of the Saxons that became used all over the
world.
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