mr_nool wrote:It made me wanna have a few pints with you. I think language history is very interesting, although I know much more about Germanic languages than of Latin.
Haha cheers. I'd REALLY recommend this.
Penny basically shows how Catalan is Vulgar Latin which is less evolved than Castilian, which itself is Vulgar Latin less evolved than Portuguese. Good book for looking at how Classical Latin was disfigured and dispersed across Southern Europe. Fascinating (but then Iberian languages is what I 'do', so I would say that).
EDIT: Apologies for the off-topicness.