Apud alexcat@volcanomail.com (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:

>Latin is the god of all [western] language.

Even sidestepping irrelevant words like "god", the above statement
is quite wrong. Latin was the precursor of the Romance languages,
but not of any of the Germanic languages. If there is a "god"
of "Western languages", it is the proto-Indo-European one.

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学