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jdminhbg
on Feb 27, 2009
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'Oldest English words' identified
Writing is much more widespread in modern Spanish than classical Latin, is modern Spanish grammar more complex?
markessien
on Feb 27, 2009
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Writing was more widespread in classical Latin than in modern Spanish. Classical Latin, the type that we read today, was a high brow language, used by educated people. The normal people used Vulgar Latin.
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