@MrGrinningManiac Let me study up first. I've got half a mind to tackle Sanskrit from a more conversational/spoken level than I did Greek. I know I'll be opening a can of worms once I post a Sanskrit video.
@CusterFlux I don't have a ready source for Italian, but Spanish…
Toda la Galia está dividida en tres partes, de las cuales una habitan los belgas, otra los aquitanos y la tercera los que en su propia lengua se llaman celtas y en la nuestra galos.
And French:
Toute la Gaule est divisée en trois parties, dont l'une est habitée par les Belges, l'autre par les Aquitains, la troisième par ceux qui, dans leur langue, se nomment Celtes, et dans la nôtre, Gaulois.
@sipes23 Thanks! No wonder the Romans considered the French just a queer dialect. ( and no wonder the French/Spanish/Italian/Ports can pick up each other's languages so easily ). Sucks being English - there's no close language that's a nice bridge to others - instead English stole from everybody yet developed on an island, so it's just far enough from everybody else to be a pain.
@CusterFlux Well, the language spoken in France today is effectively Modern Latin (as are the other romance languages). The Galli were Celts with a language related to Modern Irish or Welsh—we really don't know a whole lot about continental Celtic languages. French is, in a massive oversimplification, the modern Parisian dialect of Latin with Frankish overlay.
@sipes23 Agreed. I was watching Prof John McWhorter's video series on language, and English got so beat up between the Vikings, the Normans and trade in the last 500 years, that we nearly have two words for everything, atrocious spelling but easily the largest vocab of any language on the planet.
Unfortunately - being the bastard step child of Norman French - it is equally distant from its biological "parents" as it is from it adoptive ones.
Nasalising those final Ms reminds me of Hindi and thereby Sanskrit. Do you think one day you might do a reading in the old "Indian Latin"?
MrGrinningManiac 1 month ago
@MrGrinningManiac Let me study up first. I've got half a mind to tackle Sanskrit from a more conversational/spoken level than I did Greek. I know I'll be opening a can of worms once I post a Sanskrit video.
sipes23 1 month ago
Be interesting how this compares to modern Italian. ( same text )
CusterFlux 1 month ago
@CusterFlux I don't have a ready source for Italian, but Spanish…
Toda la Galia está dividida en tres partes, de las cuales una habitan los belgas, otra los aquitanos y la tercera los que en su propia lengua se llaman celtas y en la nuestra galos.
And French:
Toute la Gaule est divisée en trois parties, dont l'une est habitée par les Belges, l'autre par les Aquitains, la troisième par ceux qui, dans leur langue, se nomment Celtes, et dans la nôtre, Gaulois.
Does that help?
sipes23 1 month ago
@sipes23 Thanks! No wonder the Romans considered the French just a queer dialect. ( and no wonder the French/Spanish/Italian/Ports can pick up each other's languages so easily ). Sucks being English - there's no close language that's a nice bridge to others - instead English stole from everybody yet developed on an island, so it's just far enough from everybody else to be a pain.
CusterFlux 1 month ago
@CusterFlux Well, the language spoken in France today is effectively Modern Latin (as are the other romance languages). The Galli were Celts with a language related to Modern Irish or Welsh—we really don't know a whole lot about continental Celtic languages. French is, in a massive oversimplification, the modern Parisian dialect of Latin with Frankish overlay.
sipes23 1 month ago
@CusterFlux And poor old English is so battered from its history that it's barely recognisable as a German language.
sipes23 1 month ago
@sipes23 Agreed. I was watching Prof John McWhorter's video series on language, and English got so beat up between the Vikings, the Normans and trade in the last 500 years, that we nearly have two words for everything, atrocious spelling but easily the largest vocab of any language on the planet.
Unfortunately - being the bastard step child of Norman French - it is equally distant from its biological "parents" as it is from it adoptive ones.
CusterFlux 1 month ago