BWE
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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Darnit darnit darnit darnit. You are giving away the farm. THere is still the off off off off chance that the only man to push IQ into negative integers would allow me to write a post on his blog.
But this is facinating. All of 1/2-a-dave's posts are now language lessons.
OK, I assume doofus won't take my bet. I also may be giving him too much credit (can you imagine?)
Judging by his dates, I have to guess that, if he were to trot out evidence (which he indeed might not have been going to), it would have been the Auto de Partilhas. As far as I know, this is the first document written in what could be called vernacular portuguese. I think it comes from 1150-80?? ish. I assume his argument would have traced the vocabulary to it's "French" origins. I bet I could trace it to it's "Latin" origins more convincingly. Also, I would have forced definitions of French and Spanish that I believe would have confused and confounded our man with too many yards between his goalposts. I was hoping to do that part too. Also, either way, I win.
Also, as was mentioned earlier, Despite the Norman invasion, English maintained it's basic syntax and borrowed essentially just vocabulary from the french invaders. However, the French words we got are a little closer to latin than modern french maybe. Arden?
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