yamyam
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Hello, teachers.
Would you read the followiing?
Latin became an international language throughout the Roman Empire, but this was not because the Romans were more numerous than the people they conqurered. They were simply more powerful. Later, when Roman military power declined, Latin remained for a millennium as the international language of education, thanks to a different sort of power --- the religious power of Roman Catholicism.
There is also the closest of links between language dominance and economic, technological, and cultural power. Without a strong power-base, of whatever kind, no language can make progress as an international medium of communication. Language ...
Q: I don't clearly understand the structure of "There is also the closest of links". :-(
Is there anything hiding between "the closest" and "of links"? If not, would you explain it to me?
Thank you very much in advance for your help on this.
yam.
Would you read the followiing?
Latin became an international language throughout the Roman Empire, but this was not because the Romans were more numerous than the people they conqurered. They were simply more powerful. Later, when Roman military power declined, Latin remained for a millennium as the international language of education, thanks to a different sort of power --- the religious power of Roman Catholicism.
There is also the closest of links between language dominance and economic, technological, and cultural power. Without a strong power-base, of whatever kind, no language can make progress as an international medium of communication. Language ...
Q: I don't clearly understand the structure of "There is also the closest of links". :-(
Is there anything hiding between "the closest" and "of links"? If not, would you explain it to me?
Thank you very much in advance for your help on this.
yam.