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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3525379, member: 103829"]A few years ago an English coin collector came to my coin dealer and asked him wether he was interested in a coin from You-lie-sis. This met with a complete lack of understanding. Then he showed his coin: It was a republican denarius with Odysseus!!</p><p><br /></p><p>He had chosen the Latin name Ulysses for Odysseus and pronounced it as You-lie-sis in the usual English way.</p><p><br /></p><p>This shows that a uniform language is good if you want to communicate. This is the reason why High German, actually an artificial language, has prevailed over the many Lower and Upper German dialects as a unified language. The same applies to Italian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3525379, member: 103829"]A few years ago an English coin collector came to my coin dealer and asked him wether he was interested in a coin from You-lie-sis. This met with a complete lack of understanding. Then he showed his coin: It was a republican denarius with Odysseus!! He had chosen the Latin name Ulysses for Odysseus and pronounced it as You-lie-sis in the usual English way. This shows that a uniform language is good if you want to communicate. This is the reason why High German, actually an artificial language, has prevailed over the many Lower and Upper German dialects as a unified language. The same applies to Italian. Jochen[/QUOTE]
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