Cheerskep wrote: > ancestors of English -- like Latin and Greek, > > both of which had a word for "preposition" > > Ah, but (1) I don't know the ancestors well enough, and (2) Latin and > Greek are not ancestors of English, which comes from the West Germanic > branch of the Germanic branch of Proto-Indo-European language. Latin comes from > the Italic branch and Greek from the Hellenic branch. > Aw, shoot, I took pains to say "ancestors of English LIKE Latin and Greek", rather than "THE ancestors of English, Latin and Greek".
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