Re: Recovery, just not the normal sort

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:00:11 -0500, Kevin <kevin_at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I also thought that you meant Latin-of-AD-400, when it *was* the common
language all over the fricking place. ie, classical Greek in AD 50 was
roughly similar to Latin in AD 400, position-wise, which is more or less
like English in AD 2000, and (as far as the Western World is considered,
at least) there haven't really been any in between those.

You don't think French qualified as an interim Lingua Franca, for the
Western World, preceding English?

If you were Frederick the Great or Catherine the Great it certainly
did - but for Johann Schmidtz or Igor Ivanov in the same period one
could argue equally well that at least in trade matters it was German.

For diplomacy, absolutely no doubt about it - French definitely played
the same role English does now.
.

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