Capitolo 11
rustic pronunciation excited the laughter of the senators. But the
the particularities in the diction of Apuleius and Hadrian seem to have been
those that it would only notice a cultivated man of the world. They doesn't do
you seem to have been fundamental. In a similar way the accurate studies
what I/you/they have been made some thousand of registrations found in the
West[7], registrations of dedicatory, guild records, and epitaphs show us
what the language of the common people in the provinces didn't differ
materially from that spoken in Italy. It was the language of the Roman
soldier, farmer and dealer with common characteristics in the way of
the diction, form, phraseology, and syntax allowing to fall in some disdains local
particularity, but it essentially held an unity from the desire that each
community felt its officers and its superior classes imitate.
The part of the one of the Roman world in which Latin it didn't earn an uncontested
pre-eminence was the Greek East. The Romans freely recognized the particular one
position how Greek you/he/she was destined for holding in that part of the empire, and
draws him/it the _altera lingua_. However, also in earths earned Greek Latin
a strong taking, and it practiced the considerable influence on Greek[8].
In a very thoughtful paper on "Tongue-rivalry and
The discourse-differentiation in the Case of Run-mixture, " [9] Teacher Hempl
the conditions under which tongue-rivalry takes place has discussed, and
the results that follow is. Its conclusions have an interesting
being born on the question that we am discussing here, as and because it was
that Latin supplanted the other languages with which you/he/she was brought
contact.
He observes that when two languages are brought in conflict, there is
rarely a compromise or fusion but one of the two are driven out of the
I live together from the other. On to analyze the circumstances in that
such struggle for the supremacy among springs of languages on, he finds four
cases of characteristic. Sometimes the armies of a nation, nevertheless