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Not really, other than a few allusions such as one made in Catullus' poem #84. *NM* Larry Send a noteboard - 28/02/2013 11:18:58 PM

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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.


Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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