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Probably none of them, except

Yes, I know what you mean and I didn

Thanks for the info, I was really curious about that. Oh, and the link is very informative by the way, now it's much clearer.

Indeed, the Romance languages surely influenced each other during the centuries. Anyway, I took the stats from a Romance Philology book, it says the words coming directly from Latin are approx.60%. Not that it has to be the auctoritas, but I quite trust it =). Starting from the XVI century the Slavonic replaced Romanian as the official language of State and Church, with obvious consequences. Many latin terms you see today in modern Romanian were added later, (in the XVIII-XIX centuries) and they are mainly loanwords from Latin, Italian and French introduced by the

ooops..I just realised I misspelled the word "pronunciation" on the previous post..lol. *quickly clicks on edit* hehe, i assume that was also the same situation 2000 years ago, someone in Italica had probably a different accent then a roman citizen in Eborum or Virunum. I assume it was a similar set up like todays german, everyone learns and reads "High German" but if the locals (Vienna, Munich, Berlin etc..) speak to each other an "outsider" has difficulties to follow, but the moment they switch to high german everyone understands... (could be completely wrong though hehe) cheers, viggen Yes, of course, people from different countries tend to transfer their pronunciation habits to Latin as well, just like 2000 years ago and I

What makes you think that the languages spoken in Spain (yes, languageS) - Castellano,Catal

wow, very nice site

what a strange pronunciation =) it's nice to see that someone bothers to keep latin "alive". I remember Totus tuus had something like this..maybe not..my memory's clearly gone out for a walk lol

Look at my location La divina commedia is a compulsory reading in school in Italy. I recently re-read it for my medieval literature course as well. I remember when I was in school during the class I used to draw the circles of Inferno on a piece of paper and put in them the names of people I hated lol..most of them would end up in Caina or Giudecca . Even back then I was very simple-minded it seems One of the impressive elements of the Divine Comedy is the variety of styles used. Dante said his primary source of inspiration was Virgil with his

Ah, he

Congratulations!=) Common names here in present days are Emilia, Valeria, Valentina, Ilaria, Gloria, Flaminia, Serena, Viola, Giulia et cetera. So long as you don't name her Vercingetorigia..

Agreed.

Last week's rain must have precipitated the situation. I don't feel like commenting the rest..

Italian is my first language. Languages I pretend to speak: English, French, Spanish. Oh, and just a bit of Latin. There are other ancient and modern languages I'm studying but I'm not going to claim I can speak/write them, since I can't. The list is endless, at the moment I'd rather focus on the ones I'm learning. Indeed. I assimilated one of those variants for some reason lol but it's close to RP so I guess it's not that bad (well, I hope..=)).

I have the utmost envy for them as I don't look very Mediterranean lol.. anyway, little nota: Yes, it is. The other 4 regions of the south have something similar, only with different names. Well, the area where this type of organisation is actually a threat to people is from Naples to Sicily, more or less (especially in Sicily). Talking about Mafia

Well, deleting the wrong file in the registry could be dangerous, especially if you don't know what to delete, that's the reason why I suggested to post the name of the suspicious file before doing anything..not to mention that the most insidious of these spywares -if not removed quickly- can even block your access to the registry keys to prevent you from deleting them...so annoying =|

And I once heard that there was this rather small and insignificant city on that peninsula that would never have been important enough to inspire a web site discussion group Hmm..that small city..yes, I have some vague reminescence anyway, that's the association most people do, let's face it: Italia=pasta [pizza, mafia, opera, random name here..] lol This is a sort of "Circle of Scipions" =)

What antivirus are you using? Norton for instance classifies certain "data miners" and spywares as potential viral infections so running a scan with Adware won't be enough in that case, you will still get the "infection" message. (lol I'm reinventing the English language ..). If so posting the name of the file detected as a potential threat might be more useful, that way I could tell you exactly what type of threat you're dealing with and hopefully an appropriate measure.

Of course, I'm from a boot-shaped peninsula known mostly for pasta, pizza and mafia. lol.

This is a very interesting thread!The only information I had before was that the "Ligurian" language was non-indo-european. It is true that many people tend to get confused with the Celts.. There are so many theories being discussed on the subject, I think the analysis of genetic data might be very useful in this case too =). Once again, brilliant thread. It would be nice to discuss the theories but I'm dealing with applied philology at the moment.. Suum cuique pulchrum est, I guess =|

I listen to so many different things..music is a very important part of my life. I like and listen to many of the bands previously mentioned (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Joy Division and why not, also The Cult, Simple Minds and many other artists from the 80s =)) as well as 70s hard rock like 'Sabbath, Led Zeppelin', Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, The Damned etc..I also listen to classics such as the Rolling Stones, The Who, Dire Straits..and -dulcis in fundo-, heavy metal, trip hop and classical. =) -Now playing: Aerosmith - Dream on I usually listen to a lot of relatively unknown bands..I won't list all of them because it would take me hours, the main are: - Apocalyptica (instrumental tracks only), The Gathering, Kemopetrol, Akira Yamaoka (Japanese composer) +a lot of Italian artists.. Relieving, someone else listens to doom metal!

I guess I'm late but..happy birthday! =)

Oui, Monsieur Guillotin. Actually he invented it because he thought it was a more "human" way of executing people..err..

I think 80% is exaggerate if we consider that many of the latin-derived words have a Germanic counterpart. 50% is probably more realistic. The main contributions (in addition to classic latin) were Church latin and French (blame William the Conqueror =)). The majority of the loanwords from latin are technical, the Germanic words are connected to everyday life, but as I said before there are contexts in which the speaker can choose between latin and germanic words that practically have the same significance, although the latin alternative is often the more