Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?

From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG (tb+usenet_at_becket.net)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: 19 Feb 2005 15:59:36 -0800

fa192@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Manuel M Campagna) writes:

> English is _not yet_ a Romance language, but it is still moving in that
> direction.

Really? It has stopped absorbing words from Middle French last I
recall. What do you think makes something a "Romance Language"? Last
I heard, it was that it was a descendent of Latin. English isn't.

> Because the classification into families such as that of the
> "Indo-European languages" dates from the 19th century, when
> linguists were almost exclusively interested in lexicography and
> etymology, as well as diachronic phonetics. Other classifications are
> possible, such as one based on syntactic structure or morphology. Then
> the results are drastically different.

I'm afraid that I'm not going to take your word for it. You're
sufficiently uncareful in your pronouncements about linguistics and
sufficiently wrong (for example, saying that English is becoming a
Romance language, whatever that means).

Thomas