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From: olivier@austin.ibm.com (Olivier Cremel)
Subject: Re: Anglias Adieu! / Franglais adieu
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In article <3j44a0$3tt@news.halcyon.com>, Bruce McMenomy <mcmenomy@halcyon.com> writes:
>   Mediaeval Latin is a rather murky term.  (...) If you mean
> the academic "lingua franca" (seems ironic: what shall we call it --
> LIF -- language interchange format?) of the tenth through sixteenth
> centuries, then I think you can say no, it was never really
> anybody's native language.

If I remember correctly, Montaigne claimed he learned Latin as a native
language.

-- 
Olivier.
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