Borrowings from non-Romance languages are less frequent and often frowned on by purists but far from negligible.
Machine translations give workable renderings of basic texts, but complicated ideas or phrasings can trip up even the most sophisticated software, particularly in non-Romance languages.
The author had, like Bob, become embroiled in a maddening non-romance with a Soho courtesan, Lily Connolly (she had thought it was spelt Conerlly).
Translators of Rimbaud likewise lament that because French is soft, melodious and fluid in cadence, English and other non-Romance languages are unsuitable for translation.
Romance languages are also used formally in some countries where one or more non-Romance languages are used by most speakers for everyday purposes.
The other main language spoken in this now semiautonomous region, much of which was Austrian until 1919, is German, a non-Romance language.
It's less emotionally involving than its predecessor: the pathos here is on the margins, with old Mr Russell and his dog Rocket, or the non-romance between dweeby Billy and the woman in the front row.
The non-Romance languages use their own native words.
The apothecaries' pound in Venice had exactly the same subdivisions as those in the non-Romance countries, but its total weight of 301 g was at the bottom of the range.
Sadly, all good relationships are built on that sort of chalk-and-cheese natural conflict, and so it all comes to a head on Valentine's Day, where romance likers and non-romance likers are forced to have a $150 meal with each other in a low-lit restaurant, and you have to do flowers, and cards, and little chocolates wrapped in red foil, and you have to pretend that sappiness is OK.
Do veteran American diplomats abroad really believe that in the free world broad shoulders & nible fee are the sine quo non of romance?
