He chose to take his vocabulary from Romance and Germanic, the languages that were most widely taught in schools around the world and would therefore be recognisable to the largest number of people.

Here, Mao was taught the value systems of Confucianism, one of the dominant moral ideologies in China, but he would later admit that he did not enjoy reading the classical Chinese texts which preached Confucian morals, instead favouring popular novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.

Its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance.

The final reel of the film was almost fully destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing but its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance.

It represents the " soft " sound where a " c " would normally represent the " hard " sound ( before " a ", " o ", " u ", or at the end of a word ) in English and in certain Romance languages such as Catalan, French, Ligurian, Occitan, and Portuguese.

Under the strictest definition, which demands that a particle be an uninflected word, English deictics like this and that would not be classed as such ( since they have plurals ) and are therefore inflected, and neither would Romance articles ( since they are inflected for number and gender ).

As the branches of Vulgar Latin began to evolve into separate Romance languages, the term that would evolve into español began to be used to refer to these derivative languages ( especially as opposed to the Arabic and Hebrew of the Moorish and Jewish inhabitants of Iberia ).

Arabic and Aljamiado versions of the Alexander Romance were very popular in Spain during and after the period of Moorish rule, and would have been known to the explorers who journeyed to America.

Called also Amadís sin Tiempo ( Amadis without Time ) by his mother ( in allusion to the fact that being conceived outside marriage she would have to abandon him and he would probably die ), he is the most representative Iberian hero of chivalric Romance.

Vicious began his musical career in 1976 as a member of The Flowers of Romance along with former co-founding member of The Clash, Keith Levene ( who later co-founded John Lydon's post-Pistols project Public Image Limited ) and Palmolive and Viv Albertine, who would later form The Slits.

In Empires, the game would combine the action gameplay of the regular series with strategical and tactial elements from Koei's earlier series Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

German Dachs, Dutch das, Norwegian svin-toks ; Early Modern English: dasse ), probably from the PIE root * tek '- " to construct ," so the badger would have been named after its digging of setts ( tunnels ); the Germanic term * þahsu-became taxus or taxō ,-ōnis in Latin glosses, replacing mēlēs (" marten " or " badger "), and from these words the common Romance terms for the animal evolved ( Italian tasso, French tesson / taisson / tasson – now blaireau is more common –, Catalan toixó, Spanish tejón, Portuguese texugo ).

The Vlachs, who would develop into the modern Romanian ethnicity, did not become identifiable before the High Middle Ages in Kedrenos ( 11th century ), and their prehistory during the Migration period is a matter of scholarly speculation but according to the linguists and to many scholars, the existence of the present Eastern Romance languages proves the survival of the Thraco-Romans in the low-Danube basin during the Migration period and the Vlachs are all being well considered descendants of Romanised peoples of the area ( incl.

In 2008 it was announced that Supertramp's music would be featured in the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

On October 4, 2010, it was announced that Dashboard Confessional's first album, The Swiss Army Romance, would be re-released as a deluxe vinyl album on November 16.

During this time, he drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories, called " Romance Dawn ", which would debut in Akamaru Jump and Weekly Jump in late 1996-early 1997.

Less officially, it tries to show what Polish would have looked like if it had been a Romance instead of a Slavic language.

Although a truly representative sampling of the world's thousands of languages would be unworkable, a derivation from, say, the Romance, Semitic, Indic, Bantu, and Chinese languages would strike many as being fairer than Esperanto-like solutions, as these families cover about 60 % of the world's population, compared to a quarter for Romance and Germanic.

Unlike what was depicted in the novel Romance of Three Kingdoms where it only took a day for Taishi Ci to return at the exact time, Taishi Ci actually told Sun Ce that it would take at most 60 days when he left, and he did return within the 60 day limit despite suspicions that he would defect.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The lyric: " Portrait of the Dead Countess " in the track " A Gothic Romance " could be in reference to the portrait found in the novel of the Countess Mircalla.

This has often turned out to be true, especially, but not solely, for speakers of the Romance languages and educated speakers of English.

The etymology of fiddle is uncertain: the Germanic fiddle may derive from the same early Romance word as does violin, or it may be natively Germanic .< ref >

A native Germanic ancestor of fiddle may even be the ancestor of the early Romance form of violin.

In Romance of the Forest Adeline and the La Mottes live in constant fear of discovery by either the police or Adeline ’ s father and, at times, certain characters believe the castle to be haunted.

By contrast, so far as is known, the Basque language is an absolute isolate: It has not been shown to be related to any other language despite numerous attempts, though it has been influenced by neighboring Romance languages.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

Many Romance languages use a scheme that is somewhat similar but where the position of only one particular stressed syllable ( e. g. the last ) needs to be fixed.

The legacy of the Roman colonization can especially be found in the variety of the Sardinian language which is still spoken today in Nuoro: Sardu nugoresu is considered the most conservative language of the Romance family.

The Danish work may simply be a translation of a German work which is in turn assumed to have been based on a Latin or Romance vernacular manuscript from the 12th century or even earlier.

Ladin should not be confused with Ladino ( also called Judeo-Spanish ), which is a Romance dialect of Spanish.

It is known as Lorraine Franconian in English, francique or platt ( lorrain ) in French ( not to be confused with Lorrain, the Romance dialect spoken in the region ).

The broad term Vulgar Latin should not be confused with the more specific term Proto-Romance, which refers specifically to the theoretical common ancestor to the modern Romance languages.

From approximately this point on, the Latin vernaculars began to be viewed as separate languages, developing local norms and, for some, orthographies of their own, so that Vulgar Latin must be regarded not as extinct – since all modern Romance varieties are its continuation – but as replaced conceptually and terminologically by multiple labels recognizing regional differences in linguistic features.

Many of the forms castigated in the Appendix Probi proved to be the productive forms in Romance ; e. g., oricla ( Classical Latin auricula ) is the source of French oreille, Catalan orella, Spanish oreja, Italian orecchia, Romanian ureche, Portuguese orelha, " ear ", not the Classical Latin form.

There were also long and short versions of y, representing the rounded vowel in Greek borrowings, which however probably came to be pronounced even before Romance vowel changes started.

Considerable variation exists in all of the Romance vernaculars as to their actual use: in Romanian, the articles can be suffixed to the noun, as in other members of the Balkan sprachbund and the North Germanic languages.

In 1904 at the age of just fourteen Nijinsky was selected by the great choreographer Marius Petipa to dance a principal role in what proved to be the choreographer's last ballet, La Romance d ' un Bouton de rose et d ' un Papillon.

The medieval genres in which courtly love conventions can be found include the lyric, the Romance and the allegory.

Shotacon for women is almost exclusively yaoi, and may be published in general yaoi anthology magazines or in one of the few exclusively shotacon yaoi anthologies, such as Shōnen Romance.

19th century author Charlotte Mary Yonge writes that the derivation of Idonae from Idunn is " almost certain ," noting that although Idonae may be " the feminine of the Latin idoneus ( fit ), its absence in the Romance countries may be taken as an indication that it was a mere classicalizing of the northern goddess of the apples of youth.