And even the name for such words has changed meaning over time. Vulgar used to mean common as in the Vulgate Bible which if memory serves was written in German rather than Latin as Bibles were up til that time. It just meant that the Bible was written in the language of the common man rather than that of the priests and scholars (who were the only ones still using latin at the time). Another such term is Barbarian. Now days we think of someone as being uncivilized if they are called a Barbarian but at the time the term was coined (by the Romans) it simply meant that the person wasn't a Roman citizen. And of course English (British and American) is a melting pot of languages really. Words from many different countries have been added in over the years.
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@fbone when you think about it, it 's actually an indication of rising of the discussions leven and not the other way round. the hardest words to track down are the informal and/or vulgar ones.
choose any 2 languages at will and translate a passage which contains the mentioned and you ll find it the most hard part of the task.
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