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here is a puzzle (i hope i'm posting it in the right place)
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2008/10/18 - 7:54pm
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OK, here is a challenge for you etymologists out there:

Compose a modern English sentence (let's say no fewer than 10 words) using only words of Italic Language Family origin. How about Germanic?

If you can't do it without help, try http://www.ethnologue.com/family_index.asp and the OED.

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2008/10/19 - 8:16pm
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Just glancing at this therealalxconway, my brain hurts. I imagine it can be done, though. Do you have a sentence in mind?

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2008/10/20 - 9:20am
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Italic: Deviate, Adrian: avoid philosophy, elude terra firma, revitalize, belabor vitality!

Germanic: The bratwurst-hawker drank beerenauslese until he pissed his lederhosen.

I suppose a that more natural sounding sentences could be constructed. However, I used mostly Latin for Italic and mostly German for Germanic.

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2008/10/20 - 10:36am
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Wow. Nice work there. I think this is a good argument as any for mixing languages, eh?

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