DE LINGUIS RIDERE (:

From: Alain La Bonté - 3 (alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca)
Date: Fri Oct 17 1997 - 11:17:53 EDT


Johanes Cohanis (John Cowan) reproducit :
>Alain LaBonté scripsit:
>
>> French is indeed the Latin language [enforced by law, by
>> Charlemagne, in fact] spoken by a Germanic tribe called the Franks who
>> overruled the Gauls who had already been overruled by the Romans.

[Johanes] :
>A few excerpts from my Web page "Essentialist Explanations"
>(http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html):
>
>French is essentially the first syllables of Latin words spoken
>with a headcold.
> --Eugene Holman
>
>Francophones are essentially Germans speaking the bad Latin
>they were taught by Gauls.
> --Daniel von Brighoff
>
>--
>John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
> e'osai ko sarji la lojban

[Alanus] :
Hoc illud est (: (Ho. il. -> {Oc|Oïl} -> Oui)! (;

Alanus Bonitas
Urbs Laurentia



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