Judging by the graffiti I've seen, they didn't speak it particularly well. 
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 27/02/2013 09:05:31 PM
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 27/02/2013 09:05:31 PM
I'm just going to ignore the distinction between literacy and speech and the distinction between common Latin and Classical Latin for the purposes of my little bon mot.
Vulgar Latin has always interested me, though. Do you know any sources of common Latin from the late Republic or early Empire? I've been led to believe that the Latin of the colonies was already significantly different from "proper" Latin as early as the first century AD.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
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This message last edited by Ghavrel on 27/02/2013 at 09:06:26 PM
Best quote regarding Latin that I've read in quite some time 
- 27/02/2013 11:13:59 AM
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A good Latin student never declines sex.
- 27/02/2013 04:45:15 PM
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*NM*
Judging by the graffiti I've seen, they didn't speak it particularly well.
- 27/02/2013 09:05:31 PM
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They spoke it at about the level at which the average American Facebook user speaks English.
- 28/02/2013 12:40:48 AM
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Not really, other than a few allusions such as one made in Catullus' poem #84. *NM*
- 28/02/2013 11:18:58 PM
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