Re: OT RE: For French speakers only

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 05:24:42 -0800
Message-ID: <OF013D0A4C.50BCBFB0-ON88256E53.00499748-88256E53.00499639@radisys.com>

Please take this offline.

"Boivin, Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
03/09/2004 07:01 AM
Please respond to oracle-l

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        Subject:        OT RE: For French speakers only

Did I get that right? You characterized the Roman Empire as unholy?

It was only Christian for about ninety years before Rome fell and the Bizantine Empire continued where Rome had left off, but that doesn't mean pre-Christian times were "unholy".

LOL Patrice.

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From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com] Sent: March 8, 2004 2:17 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: For French speakers only

Phrase "lingua franca" literally means "the languge of the Francs". It is a
medieval
term, from the times of Carl the Great, the ruler of the Francs who was crowned for
an Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (not to be confused with the rather unholy one
that preceded it) and the language of the Francs was to become the new official
language of the empire which encompassed more or less the whole Europe, including
the infamous village in today's France. Thus the term "lingua franca". It wasn't
to be. Instead of the term "lingua franca", we should use the term "lingua saxonica",
because it was the language of the Saxons that became used all over the world.

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