Oh dear. (View Post)

That's how you get pidgin and then creole languages: if peeps are desperate enough to do business they will find a way of communicating. E.G. Swahili is a creole of arabic, and bantu family languages… (View Post)

Torpenhow (hill, hill, hill in Gaelic/Welsh/Norse). (View Post)

True dat but you have a westward bias - that's all to the left of Italy. Not saying Greek caught on in the East like Latin did in the west, but nor did latin. (View Post)

He managed a fine leg in the life drawing classes. (View Post)