Russell
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Joined: April 2005
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| Quote | | AF Dave says that Spanish and Portuguese were essentially the same language until 1143 AD when Portugal broke away from Spanish control under a French nobleman by the name of Henry of Burgundy. |
I'm not about to get into a hair-splitting contest over what "essentially the same language" means, when we're talking about a family of Romance languages/dialects in the process of, yes, evolving. There is nothing "ambiguous", though, about your contention that Henry of Burgundy was alive and kicking in 1143.
Getting back to the earlier point, though, you apparently contend that: | Quote | | phonetically Portuguese is somewhat closer to Catalan or to French. |
is equivalent to | Quote | | Portuguese (which of course is Spanish and French mixed). |
... and you think it's "arrogant" to think otherwise?
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one. But you have a nice time in church tomorrow regaling your fellow fundies with tales of how you showed those infidels!
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