To: Clemenza
1) 50% of the words being Spanish is different than one or two words of Italian, Yiddish, etc.
2) I didn't say it was a conspiracy. It just has to happen ... which it is.
The Lombards and the Goths and the Visigoths were not in conspiracy with one another, yet ...
To: who_would_fardels_bear
The Visigoths kinda' lost didn't they? They were never able to suppress Basque, and the next language down the beach front was Galician, and it didn't disappear until the 16th Century when its speakers all emigrated to the Americas.
Ladino and Latin absorbed substantial amounts of Arabic and Berber to create Spanish.
Visigothic was probably spoken by the Visigoths only for the length of time necessary for their children to learn to tell the non-Visigothic peasantry what to do next.
15 posted on
11/07/2005 5:48:10 PM PST by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
More people speak English than any other language on Earth, and more are learning it everyday. I wish I still had the study on hand from the UN (I know) but English is the fastest growing language on the planet.
17 posted on
11/07/2005 5:56:00 PM PST by
Clemenza
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