Isn't the nature of a language supposed to depend on how and where we use it? The early circumstances of my use of German (as a young student visitor in Heidelberg) were so overwhelmingly pleasant that I have been quasi -in love with the language ever since. The same cannot, alas, be said for my even more extensive acquaintance with French, especially of late years!! On the other hand says she, apparently destroying her own linguistic argument I've never actually used my A-level Latin, but have always found it perfectly agreeable as far as it goes....
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