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cenamustoday at 4:42 AM1 replyview on HN

If you translate English literally (a very analytical language) to a very synthetic language (eg. Latin), it also sounds like caveman spreak


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throwaway27448today at 4:58 AM

Classical latin is not very order constrained because it embeds so much grammar morphologically; it could aound very much like english or not at all like english, depending on the author's choices.

Vulgar latin does correspond to modern romance languages (and english) much more closely.