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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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In article <D3sr3v.C3p@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
           iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk "Ivan A Derzhanski" writes:
> >Come now, Da! Surely your imagination can stretch *this* far:
> >"A Romance language is any language which draws a majority of its 
> >word stock from Latin." 
> 
> This is nonsense.

What is your definition of a Romance language then?

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Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
