ericmurphy
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| Quote (afdave @ May 20 2006,21:12) | | **gasp** can't let this Creo have a victory **sigh** |
You're joking, right?
It's pretty clear at this point that Portuguese is not a mixture of French and Spanish, which is what you originally claimed. You've presented no evidence whatsoever that Portuguese is somehow a combination of the two (even in the sense that English is a Germanic tongue into which Latin grammar has been shoehorned). No one would claim that English is a mixture of Germanic and French, despite the huge number of French cognates in English.
How do you get a "victory" out of a statement that Portuguese is "phonetically closer to French than Spanish"? The fact that a language is pronounced in a similar fashion to another language says nothing about their relationship to each other.
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