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Topic: Matters Arising | |
alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 11:44 am Subject: Matters Arising |
There is certainly a misunderstanding and I'm not sure where it lies either.
People in Etruria now speak a dialect of Italian, but this bears no resemblance to Etruscan as known from inscriptions, ... |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 7:07 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
That's assuming there was a rustic Etruscan patois. What if the Etruscans spoke a non-Italian, not even Romance, language because they were (merely) a foreign ruling elite? Etruscan might have died ra ... | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 11:02 am Subject: Matters Arising |
There are something like 13,000 Etruscan "documents" (i.e. all written records including epigraphic and numismatic inscriptions) discovered/collected so far. So I would say they do present a ... | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 12:12 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Bernie, I'm busy today, but I'll answer you in the next days. My answer will entirely be inspired by "History of the Origins of the French Language" by Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (1872). I ... | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 3:53 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
I think you misunderstand orthodoxy's position. They think these are genuine discrete languages, it used to be "Celtic" but they are a bit vaguer these days. Etruscan is slightly different s ... | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 2:04 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Lepontic, Raetic, Venetic, Logurian, Picene, Umbrian, Etruscan, Faliscan, Sabellian, Volscian, Oscan, Messapic and finally Sicel
Perhaps you can check these assumptions: 1. None of these languages e ... |
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Topic: French Translation | |
alincthun Replies: 636 Views: 188450 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 9:48 am Subject: French Translation |
When did French begin to use -s to make its plurals (chat-chats)? Is there any point in so-called "Old French" where the plurals are mostly not -s?
In the first French writings, before the ... |
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Topic: Matters Arising | |
alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 2:45 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
There was the French tennis player Jean Borotra, who was called by English newspapers 'the Bounding Basque'. Do the French call him the Galloping Gascon?
No, he was le Basque bondissant. The terms ar ... |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 1:38 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
Mais oui! Nick is saying that you do have the w sound but you don't use a w.
Our posts have crossed, but I was saying that, except for oui, ouest and ouistiti (marmoset in English), there is no w- in ... |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 1:26 pm Subject: Matters Arising |
"The Romans represented the w-sound by using two of their V letters, or two of their U letters. Later, the Anglo-Saxons preferred to use their runic letter wyn to depict the w-sound. However, the ... | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 2:30 am Subject: Re: Patois Normande |
Is everybody else happy with this disappearance of grandad Viking's language?
This disappearance has really happened. In 911, the Viking Rollo has legally gained the territory of Normandy. Thirty-two ... |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 8:51 am Subject: Matters Arising |
Guernsey patois, which is Norman-French bar the shouting, was spoken and written until quite recently (even, allegedly, by my great-grandparents). Thar's where to look.
Definitely. If you look at thi ... |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 10:38 am Subject: Matters Arising |
I must admit that to say that Anglo-Norman is "English, not French" is at best a rash short cut, at the worst completely false (you know that better than me). | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 10:11 am Subject: Re: Frankish and Anglo-Norman |
According to the conventional wisdom the fact that the English dictionaries see "ward" and "gaol" as from Anglo-Norman and the French etymological dictionaries see them as fro ... | |
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alincthun Replies: 3607 Views: 1049051 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 10:04 am Subject: Matters Arising |
But that would take us back to the warrantee/guarantee, ward/guard, garden/yard Norman thing, and we don't want to go back there, do we?
Some of us are very familiar with the GU = W rule that means g ... |
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