OT: Latin (was Re: RE: [tlug] [REMINDER] "Defending the Creative Commons")

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> From: "Brett Robson" <Brett.Robson@example.com>
> Date: 2002/12/13 金 午後 05:15:16 GMT+09:00
> To: <tlug@example.com>
> Subject: RE: [tlug] [REMINDER] "Defending the Creative Commons"
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> That's a fundamental difference we have that needs to be resolved over beer, (I can't make it tonight). Linguistists crave change and believe that languages evolve, it gives them something to study. I insist that language mutates and devolves. Latin did not die because it was useless, given a suitable vocabulary of (primarily) nouns it would be just as useful today.

Latin didn't "die" so much as it morphed (evolved/devolved - take your pick) into different languages: present day Italian, Spanish, French and Romanian.