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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Abbott also makes the point, and from the text this is old news to him, that the Romance languages didn't evolve from Latin, but from what I call Roman. Indeed, the common language of the city Rome until quite recent times was Romanesco, which is now not much more than a regional accent and some unique idioms.
The man in the street also used prepositions as a matter of course, rather than the formal Latin inflections. Abbot gives this example: magna pars de exercitu, in preference to formal magna pars exercitus. ("A large part of the army")
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I didn't know that. I did wonder at the use of inflections in Latin as opposed to prepositions in the Latin-derived languages I am familiar with. So so-called Latin-European languages are not purely derived from Latin but also from Romanesco (and other local languages) which used prepositions, if I understand correctly.