SV: Can Parent and Daughter co-exist?

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>lmfosse at online.no writes:

>Furthermore, within a Hindu context, all Indian languages apparently at all
>times have been intimately connected with Sanskrit, which exchanged a great
>number of lexical elements with the Prakrits and later vernaculars. (One
>sometimes wonders if Sanskrit isn't an undead rather than a dead language
>:-). >>

-- similarly, Latin has been a continuing influence on the European
languages; even English grammarians originally used Latin models, doing some
violence to the language in the process.