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Romanian was NOT so "Latin" as the people like to put it. Yes, cherry-picking one could find instances of astonishingly well preserved Latin traces, but the fact is that the old Romanian had only under 40% Latin-descending words and was heavily infused with words from Slavic, Turkish, Magyar, Bulgarian, German, and what not! By the way, those layers were being ousted continuously in a political effort to "re-Latinize" the Romanian language. To give you an example, the word "slobod" was a common Romanian word of Slavic origin, meaning "free" and was used broadly in various formal contexts (like administration, where "slobozie" was officially a locality free of taxes), and now its default meaning is the content that was "freed" on ejaculation, thus avoided in all but vulgar instances. For a while now Romanian proffered Latin-originated borrowings and thus become more related, but I think you could force that pretty much on any language if you try hard enough.