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Old 09-17-2010, 05:20 PM
jg27_mc jg27_mc is offline
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Originally Posted by Feuerfalke View Post
errr... did you read your link?
Actually I did… One thing is to suffer influence from other linguistic branches (e.g. introduction of new vocabulary/words) - That’s what happens in our days with the introduction of English vocabulary in several languages. (e.g. Portuguese)

The other is to have a language like the English that clearly comes from a Germanic branch and has nothing to do with Latin.

Being that said, English doesn’t have “...latino derivance...” like Xilon_X stated.

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