From: Roger Nolan (Roger.Nolan@Symbian.com)
Date: Fri 14 Jul 2000 - 14:25:56 EEST
Alex says (759)
> The 'newts are _clearly_ all about attempting to become dragons;
> the EWF to some extent to perhaps, but in the first instance
> in understanding them.
Maybe I'm wrong but I'd always seen the EWF as analagous to the GLs in that
they were trying to do the same thing, understand them in order to use their
power for their own ends. Their eng goal was exploiting the dragons - that's
what got the dragons all riled.
Andrew Barton says (759):
> They were
> known as 'vulgar' latin ; 'Italian' as such didn't exist, and Dante
> set out (following but not imitating the french Romance novelists,
> and the Troubadours) to write an epic poem in a vulgar form.
- -..but, but, but, vulgar Latin and Italian are very similar - speakers of
one (if we could find them) could probably understand the other. How far off
topic are we?
R
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