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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Languages in the EC
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:30:33 GMT
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Not so very long ago, elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America) said...

>"A Romance language is any language which draws a majority of its 
>word stock from Latin." 

  Then it wonders me whether English should be called a Romance language; 
I'd guess that the majority of all dictionary entries in English somehow 
come from latin, but the majority of words in running colloquial speech 
is Germanic.
  Non-convincing experiment:

  Then it wonders me whether English should be called a Romance language; 
  G    G  G       G  G       G       G      G  G      G R       R
I'd guess that the majority of all dictionary entries in English somehow 
G G G     G    G   R        G  G   R          R       G  G       G
come from Latin, but the majority of words in running colloquial speech 
G    G    R      G   G   R        G  G     G  G       R          G
are Germanic.
G   G

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