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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 05 April 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.04.04 (02) [E1</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">> From: Mark Dreyer <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">
mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.04.03 (01) [E]<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">> Actually, as far as I know, the Italo-Celtic hypothesis is
<br>> pretty much defunct. There are definitely similarities, even<br>> within IE as a whole, but the current line of thinking is that<br>> the resemblance between the Italic* languages and Celtic ones
<br>> is due to areal proximity rather than genetic relationship.<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Certainly when I was learning Welsh the ancient latinisms in the
<br>language (eg "pont" for "bridge") were never considered to be anything<br>more than straightforward borrowings from Latin during the Roman<br>occupation. The Romans had a strong presence in Wales, particularly at
<br>Caerleon.<br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q"><br>> Mark: It was near enough that Julius Caeser reports in his<br>> Commentaries that he made a point of writing his dispatches in
<br>> Greek, in case they were intercepted by Gaulish spies.<br><br>> I for my part find this odd, but in a different way. Just<br>> because the Gauls weren't in close contact with the Romans
<br>> doesn't mean they also weren't in contact with the Greeks.<br>> Masselia was a Greek colony after all. There were almost<br>> certainly a good few Greeks around who spoke Gaulish, & more
<br>> Gauls who read Greek.<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Using a natural language as a code is a notoriously poor strategy, but<br>it does seem to have found favour with the military at times, and I've
<br>read that it was also used by the Americans in the first world war, who<br>believed (incorrectly) that the Germans wouldn't be able to understand<br>American Indian languages.<br><br>It perhaps makes some sense as a "better than nothing" solution, there's
<br>always the chance that the other lot won't happen to have someone just<br>handy-by with the necessary language skills and will at least have some<br>trouble with it.<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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