Latin-speaking love

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  • And even if there had been cause for plenty of Latin-speaking movement along all of the old roads and bridges leading to Rome, there was no longer an empire to maintain them.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And even if there had been cause for plenty of Latin-speaking movement along all of the old roads and bridges leading to Rome, there was no longer an empire to maintain them.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • By now, O.K. looks and sounds oll korrect pretty much anywhere on language-using Earth.xvi iAs delightful as a Latin-speaking ATM may be, it would probably still eat your card after the third presentation of “Hic PIN invalidus est.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • By now, O.K. looks and sounds oll korrect pretty much anywhere on language-using Earth.xvi iAs delightful as a Latin-speaking ATM may be, it would probably still eat your card after the third presentation of “Hic PIN invalidus est.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Now by the time Paul was writing in it, the ancient Greek language was in a sad state of decline, thanks to those greedy war-mongering busybodies of the ancient world the Latin-speaking Romans.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • But the Romans may well have got 'Banna' from a local name, as they often did, and there's no telling how a harrassed Latin-speaking clerk might have mangled an unfamiliar name, especially if he was trying to write it down in horizontal rain :- It might have been 'W' all the time for all we know.

    The battle of Arfderydd or Arthuret Carla 2010

  • As these Arab and Berber soldiers slowly conquered Sicily and extended their reach to parts of the Italian mainland, they came in contact with, and for some two hundred years ruled over, Greek-speaking Orthodox Christians loyal to the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople, Latin-speaking Christians obedient to the pope in Rome, and small but significant communities of Jews.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • They quickly found employment with one or another of the local Latin-speaking Longobard princes who were in constant conflict with each other and who also had to contend with a Greek-speaking Byzantine empire that was trying to expand its territory on the Italian mainland.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • The sources refer to bitter and protracted tension at Pompeii between Oscan-speaking natives and Latin-speaking colonists.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • An English speaker, for instance, who chooses to refer to "coitus interruptus" when the subject needs to be discussed rather than the English equivalent is likely doing so because the English might appear too personal and revealing and probably not because he/she is being mentally colonized by a Latin-speaking influence.

    Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms mj 2009

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