Not quite, dear Phillipson, not quite.
You are eluding the point.
English Language to be a true language must incor****ate romance roots.
If not, you were using just a guttural barbaric dialect.
The other two languages you mention would have no use without Neo-Latin
roots.
Salud y curvas, Paco.
"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > A good method of sounding like a scholar would be, no doubt, learning
> > Spanish or Italian.
>
> From mediaeval times until 1970 or 1980, it was generally
> accepted that every scholar must have at least a good reading
> knowledge of two or more other languages than his mother-tongue.
> High school graduation usually required proof by examination of
> competence in at least one such language and the PhD degree
> required proof of at least two. These qualifications were generally
> abandoned late in the 20th century: but the idea survives, that
> scholar****p requires competence in languages.
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
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