Extract from Amo, Amas, Amat. Harry Mount quotes Kingsley Amis to illustrate the chasm between Latin and French: "an imagined dialogue between a scrounging legionary, perhaps a Vandal or Parthian by origin, and a willing but benighted yokel [in ancient Gaul, which became France]."
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Some reading we have exchanged recently.
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