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markessien
on Feb 26, 2009
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'Oldest English words' identified
The reconstruction is as likely to be flawed as not - we cannot base an opinion of a result that we are not sure is accurate at all.
Particularly when there are lots of modern day samples we can use as our comparison basis.
jdminhbg
on Feb 27, 2009
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Writing is much more widespread in modern Spanish than classical Latin, is modern Spanish grammar more complex?
markessien
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Writing was more widespread in classical Latin than in modern Spanish. Classical Latin, the type that we read today, was a high brow language, used by educated people. The normal people used Vulgar Latin.
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Particularly when there are lots of modern day samples we can use as our comparison basis.