Re: [tlug] RE: OT: Latin

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:35:43PM +0900, Mauro Sauco wrote:
> > Italian is also much closer to French than it is to Spanish.
> Not true, at least from my perspective .. as a Spanish speaker I do understand Italian a lot more than French.

so, where is the problem?

you are both saying that you understand italian better,
which makes a lot of sense because of all the languages italian
should be a lot closer to latin.

the two comparisons are unrelated:

1. it-fr  < sp-fr
2. it-sp  < sp-fr

as a graph:

   fr -------- sp
     \        /
      \      /
       \    /
         it

there is no contradiction.
both can be true.

greetings, martin.
-- 
interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training,      
sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world.
--
pike programmer     working in europe                             csl-gmbh.net
                    open-steam.org     (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at
unix                bahai.or.at                       iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at
systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org        is.(schon.org|root.at)
Martin Bähr         http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/