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.
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.
Je suis méchant.
Best quote regarding Latin that I've read in quite some time 
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A good Latin student never declines sex.
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*NM*
Judging by the graffiti I've seen, they didn't speak it particularly well. 
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They spoke it at about the level at which the average American Facebook user speaks English.
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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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