improvius
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| Quote (afdave @ Oct. 17 2006,13:54) | | Now if you have all three of these languages in your own family (my mother speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish and my cousin speaks fluent French), you tend to have a little better overview of these languages than the average person. I can tell you that if you have heard all three languages like I have, the mix is quite obvious. |
This is probably obvious to everyone, but I'll point it out anyway. THIS is the source of your misconception. Your limited childhood data consisted of Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English. Given only those 4 sets of data, it might be reasonable to place Portuguese in between the other two Romance languages. Of course, if you'd grown up with Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, you'd probably have done the same thing. Then this thread would be full of your arguments about how Portuguese = Italian + Spanish, and you'd be scouring the web trying to find examples of Italian influence in medieval Portugal.
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