Re: The most Latin of Romance languages?

From: Paul J Kriha (paul.nospam.kriha_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:01:26 +1200

Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message news:4111ADE9.1108@alphalink.com.au...
> M. Ranjit Mathews wrote:
>
> > I once read an anecdote (contrived?) of an Italian professor who
> > chided a student for turning in a paper with prose (poetry?) in Latin,
> > but was abashed when the student pointed out that the "Latin" was
> > correct Italian too.
>
> Oh, was it:
>
> I VITELLI DEI ROMANI SONO BELLI
>
> (now, I'm not shouting, that's just how the Romans
> wrote it in stone).

Earlier today there was a film on the box about Roman gladiators.
The Romans kept shouting, while the foreign slaves were just
whispering. Coincidence? :-)

Paul JK

> >That would seem to make Italian close to Latin.
>
> Well, not really :-)