On 2011-12-12 10:39:22 -0600, David Hatunen said:

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:52:29 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:

Dan Stephenson wrote in
news:2011121018384715615-stephedanospam@maccom:

On 2011-12-10 09:57:42 -0600, Wolfgang Schwanke said:

What he said, is that modern Greeks cannot understand the ancient Greek
at all.

Yes. Modern Greek and Ancient Greek are two different languages. It's
like Latin and Italian: One is descended from the other and they are of
course closely related, but distant enough not to be mutually

I have been led to understand that Italian is pretty close to the vulgate
Latin spoken by most people at the time of the Roman Empire and the
vulgate had, at that time, already drifted toward being a different
language than classical Latin. Was there a similar "vulgate" Greek spoken
in ancient times, but all we usually see in ancient texts is the
classical Greek?

So when did Italian start ending all its words with a vowel? Written
Latin does not have that.
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