i know that, i didnt say english was a latin language, i just said it should never had become a language as, well quite frankly it is a very crude and nasty language!
(That quote about bastardization was said by someone famous somewhat differently, cant remember who...)-and i was trying to be funny :P
and i stay firm that romance languages are all bastardizations of latin, and since i am fluent in latin, that is the reason i was able to learn quite a bit about all the romance languages was because i learned latin, which is a requirement for my MASTERS degree in science AND history, and i am working on my doctorate now. anyway, when you do look at the history of the romance languages, they were essentially modified versions of latin.
"in Gallo-Roman France, a split occurred between north and south, assisted by incursions of Germanic-speaking Franks--whence the name "France"--into the north. Here, too, further dialectalization occurred throughout the Middle Ages, resulting in a multitude of speech forms such as Francien, Picard, Norman, Lorrain, and Walloon. Southern French, or Provençal, split into Languedocien, Auvergnat, and many other dialects. The dialect of Paris gradually became the national language, however, because of the political prestige of the capital and today is accepted as the model for the French language."
"The history of the Spanish language and the origin of the dialects of Spain begin with the linguistic evolution of Vulgar Latin. Castilian & Andalusian dialects emerged in the Iberian peninsula (Hispania) during the middle ages.The emergence of modern Spanish more or less coincided with the reconquest of Moorish Spain which was completed by Isabella of Castile & Ferdinand of Aragón."
[FONT=VERDANA, GENEVA, HELVETICA][SIZE=2]"Linguistically speaking, the Italian language is a member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken principally in the Italian peninsula, southern Switzerland, San Marino, Sicily, Corsica, northern Sardinia, and on the northeastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, as well as in North and South America. Considered a single language with numerous dialects, Italian, like the other Romance languages, is the direct offspring of the Latin spoken by the Romans and imposed by them on the peoples under their dominion. Of all the major Romance languages, Italian retains the closest resemblance to latin. The struggle between the written but dead language and the various forms of the living speech, most of which were derived from Vulgar Latin, was nowhere so intense or so protracted as in Italy."[/SIZE][/FONT]
so, as you can see, they are all bastardizations of latin, italian being the closest to latin. and i know about eastern romance languages, but they didnt begin to develop until after 100 ad as the roman empire had not reached that far, and even than the eastern languages are the farthest from latin as they were held under roman rule for the least amount of time.
