When Neil Gaiman had Miss Lupescu, The Graveyard Book’s “Baloo” figure, say “da,” I initially assumed, albeit with surprise, that he had made the common mistake of thinking that Romanian is a Slavic language.
But it turns out that Romanian, lacking a clear Latin term for “yes,” borrowed “da” from Slavonic – so Gaiman is off the hook.
That is all.
phew! catastrophe averted!
Well…He’s off the hook THIS TIME.
We’ll be watching you, Gaiman. When you least expect it, that’s when to expect it…or…something like that.
Sed “hoc ille” et “imo vero” dicunt utrum res est an res non est.