Yes. What's more 'once upon a time' there was a lingua franca among
the sea-faring tribes around the north of Germany, parts of Denmark,
the south of Sweden too. In one direction that lingua franca opted for
the quiet life and settled down to become a fledged regional dialect
of its own: that became Frisian.
In another it became first a national, then an international and now a
global language, where again it is acting as a lingua franca.
On 03/04/2008, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Except for the parts of it that come from French
> and Latin and . . .
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> Hal
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> "To emphasize only the beautiful seems to
> me to be like a mathematical system that
> only concerns itself with positive numbers."
> --Franz Kafka
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> Halvard Johnson
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> On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:22 PM, MC Ward wrote:
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> > Jesse,
> >
> > A small point, perhaps, but English isn't a romance
> > language--it's Germanic.
> >
> > Candice
> >
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> >
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David Bircumshaw
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