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Interesting. As I recently proved, my French sucks, but se entiende, and looking at/hearing Italian is like looking at French meets Spanish with some strange third element. I've seen the chart on how they evolved, and I know I don't have it right, but that's what it seems like.
Has anyone here ever poked at Romanian? I did for a couple of weeks and I remember being thrilled by its enclitic construction-- that the articles are suffixes to the nouns. It has seven cases of declension by the way. I wonder way its case system survived whereas the others lost all but a hint of theirs. I suppose I could look into it but, I mean, come on, why? It's Romanian. Joking. Kind of. I know all this is totally off the subject, but I figure as long as we're discussing Romance languages. . .
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