Latin Variants
Hugh Cayless
philomousos at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 00:26:57 CET 2016
Arguably though, the vocabulary of Classical Latin *is* fixed, whereas Neolatin is growing.
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>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 11:00, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
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>> On 27 Feb 2016, at 15:21, Hugh Cayless <philomousos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Neolatin also frequently uses vocabulary you wouldn't find in Classical Latin.
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> The same can be said for 19th- vs 20th- vs 21st-century French (or any language that adopts new vocabulary). Something like Basic English (with a strictly controlled vocabulary) is quite different.
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