Re: Dead languages?

From: Lueko Willms (l.willms_at_jpberlin.de)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: 09 Jul 2004 12:59:00 GMT

. Am 09.07.04
schrieb jcownie@etnus.com (James Cownie)
    auf /COMP/LANG/COBOL
     in JosHc.1780$ko3.16540766@news-text.cableinet.net
  ueber Re: Dead languages?

JC> One of the "teach yourself a foreign language" companies here in the
JC> UK has been running adds which state "All our tapes are made by
JC> native speakers", and the list of languages includes Latin...
JC>
JC> I don't know where they found this native Latin speaker ;-)

   Maybe they gave a Latin Lover just a little twist ...

Yours,
Lüko Willms http://www.mlwerke.de
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