[lbo-talk] VERY off-topic: for the English teachers (probably not profs)

[Joseph Catron]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


> Yes, Romanian is inflected. Closest living language to Latin.
>
> Closer than Italian, you think?

I don't know in this instance, but isn't the rule of thumb that that the
geographically peripheral branches of a language or culture will tend to
remain constant more than those remaining in place?

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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."