On 11/25/2010 10:39 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:19:48 -0600, The Daring Dufas wrote:
I have to wonder what the world would be like if The Roman Empire had
endured? I suppose we would be speaking Latin?


Greek, more likely. Even at the dawn of the empire, the educated
class (which means the governing class) spoke Greek as often as
Latin. With the transfer of the capital to Constantinople, the
language of government gradually shifted to Greek, though I believe
Latin survived longer in the army.


Well heck, the language of diplomacy was once French. The language
of aviation is English except when French pilots refuse to speak it
and wind up making a big smoking hole in the ground. :-)

TDD