From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-04-11, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
      
   > Here's something to test your constant carping against language.   
   > Solipsism is derived from Latin "solus ipse" (himself alone).   
   > Latin fathered (or mothered) our modern Romance languages; and was   
   > itself part of a previous family of Indo-European languages which had   
   > their own roots in previous human history.   
   > English is Germanic in origin, rather than Roman-based; but so many   
   > Latin and Greek words have been imported (often via French) by writers   
   > and thinkers that it looks more Romance than Germanic nowadays,   
   > especially in the more cultivated and higher areas of use.   
   >   
   > The evolution of language.   
      
   Oh, the hilarity of carping with language against carping   
   against language!   
      
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   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
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