On May 14, 2008, at 6:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aw, shoot, I took pains to say "ancestors of English LIKE Latin and
Greek",
rather than "THE ancestors of English, Latin and Greek".
When you wrote, "ancestors of English -- like Latin and Greek, both of
which had a word for "preposition," I construed that you did
specifically mean L and G, because you added that they both have a
word for "preposition."
You don't wanna say, "Latin and Greek are not ancestors of English,"
Michael.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. Want to try again?
(But for the record, Latin and Greek are NOT ancestors of English,
unless you want to go back thousands of years, before there was
Germanic or Hellenic languages.)
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Michael Brady
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