Re: About icelandic
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:00:29 +0000, António Marques
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I don't know, but... with just a little training I think a
german or french or portuguese speaker could read texts
written in those languages a thousand years ago.
Definitely more than just a little training in the case of
German, and I think in the case of French as well; I've no
opinion about Portuguese.
Brian
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