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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1758934" data-attributes="member: 2238">To chime in on the literacy thing that Wombat is pointing out.  The nature of language was such that (even today) people in northern france could not understand the vernacular of people in southern france.  Thus everyone depended on latin until the vernacular could develop into written languages.  Latin as a second language being the only functional literacy cuts down on the numbers of those who would otherwise be literate.  And since everyone is using latin for reading and writing, no one writes down french.There is a reason Italy was so innovative... education comes cheaper if the language you write in is what your language is derived from as opposed to some franco-germanic mish mash.  Aaron.</blockquote>