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<blockquote data-quote="pensiv" data-source="post: 399515" data-attributes="member: 174">Are French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, etc. &quot;bad&quot; Latin?The English words captain, chief, and chef were each adopted from French in three different periods of the French language. The words each descend from the Latin word caput.Captain has a hard 'c' and a sound that we write as 'p.' As time went on, French speaking habits changed in a way that many people have expressed here as being the wrong way to speak. The velar stop, represented in captain by the letter 'c' shifted pronunciation into a dental fricative, represented by the 'ch' in chief. Another metamorphosis undergone during that time was the shifting of the labial stop 'p' into the labio-dental fricative 'f.' Finally, the dental fricative represented by the 'ch' in chief softened into the alveolar-palatal fricative 'ch' of chef and the vowel 'ie' in chief relaxed into the 'e' of chef.This sort of thing happens every day and is the natural drift of language. As people continue to mispronounce words, new languages start to form. If you want it any other way, you could always go back to simple pointing and grunting to communicate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pensiv, post: 399515, member: 174"] Are French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, etc. "bad" Latin? The English words captain, chief, and chef were each adopted from French in three different periods of the French language. The words each descend from the Latin word [i]caput[/i]. Captain has a hard 'c' and a sound that we write as 'p.' As time went on, French speaking habits changed in a way that many people have expressed here as being the wrong way to speak. The velar stop, represented in captain by the letter 'c' shifted pronunciation into a dental fricative, represented by the 'ch' in chief. Another metamorphosis undergone during that time was the shifting of the labial stop 'p' into the labio-dental fricative 'f.' Finally, the dental fricative represented by the 'ch' in chief softened into the alveolar-palatal fricative 'ch' of chef and the vowel 'ie' in chief relaxed into the 'e' of chef. This sort of thing happens every day and is the natural drift of language. As people continue to mispronounce words, new languages start to form. If you want it any other way, you could always go back to simple pointing and grunting to communicate. [/QUOTE]

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