Friday, August 8, 2008

Not so Romantic

You know how people say that Italian and French (maybe even Spanish) are Romantic languages?

Well, the same thing can't be said about South Korean. Not counting, the word "Cameroon", I don't understand a word they're saying.
Everything sounds like Chinese to me.

(But the game is extremely good!)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

The term "Romance" comes from the Vulgar Latin adverb romanice, derived from Romanicus: used, for instance, in the expression romanice loqui, "to speak in Roman" (that is, the Latin vernacular), contrasted with latine loqui, "to speak in Latin" (Medieval Latin, the conservative version of the language used in writing and formal contexts or as a lingua franca), and with barbarice loqui, "to speak in Barbarian" (the non-Latin languages of the peoples that conquered the Roman Empire).[1] From this adverb the noun romance originated, which applied initially to anything written romanice, or "in the Roman vernacular".

Yes I'm bored.

Unknown said...

Big cheer for Austin -
number 1 again!