The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature

Frank Frost Abbott

Capitolo 19

phraseology and the use of words we am tilted for avoiding in ours really
discourse, because they marks a lack of the crop. We examine them to us from the
standard of kind society, and it ignores them, or it condemns them, or it laughs to
them as abnormal or illogical or indicative of the ignorance. Till now as
literature goes, the discourse of the common people has the small interest for
us because it is not the literary mean and recognized. These two reasons
you/he/she has prevented the reasonable man of cultivated it tastes to give a lot
attention to the way in which the masses speak, and only the professional one
student is busy with their language. This is unlucky
because the discourse of the common people has many points of interest, and,
instead of being illogical, it is usually very more rigid in his/her adherence
to his/her his/her own accepted principles that talked formal it is to that it is probable
is influenced by convention or the conventional associations. To take a
illustration of that that I have in mind, the elegant _-s_ is the common mark in
English of a plural form. For example, "berets", "maps", "lines" and
"places" they are plural, and the unusual forms and correspondents are "beret,"
"map", "line", and "place." Accordingly granted the fundamental premise,,
it is perfectly a logical and very scientific trial from the forms
"has a relapse" (pronounced, clearly, "relaps") and "kind" to postulate a
corresponding unusual, and he/she speaks of "a relap" and "a kind", as a black
of my knowledge regularly ago. "Scrope" and "lept", as preterites of
"clearings" and "jump", it is correctly formed on the analogy of "it broke" and
"walked to on all four", but you/he/she is not used in kind society.

Till now as English, the German, or French it goes, a certain degree of general
interest has lately been stimulated in the form in which they takes
the life of every-day from two very different agencies, from the popular articles of
students of language, and from realistic and novels of dialect. But for ours
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