How Latin Became The Romance Languages
by Patrick Wyman on The Concourse, shared by David Ro from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3CFY8)
The Latin language is one of the Roman Empire's lasting legacies. We hear it around us every day in the form of direct Latin loan-words into English, like "abdomen" or "exterior." Every time you say something is "necessary" or you need to make a "revision" to a document, you're using a loan-word from French, which"