Capitolo 27
on the serious writer. They coins new words or I uses the old words in a new way
or I use new constructions without a lot of hesitation. The extraordinary
progress of material of the modern world during the last century has
undoubtedly it stimulated this tendency in an extraordinary way, but it is able
you seem as if the people's Latin common from the duration of Plautus to that
of Cicero is due to be submitted even more to influences inventing
what conversational and modern English has. During this period the recently
territories conquered in Spain, northern Africa, Greece, and Asia poured
their slaves and dealers in Italy, and it added a lot of words to the
dictionary of the life of every-day. The great mixture of Greek words and
idioms in the language of Petronius in the first century of ours it was
it furnishes test of this fact. A still greatest influence is due to be
felt inside the same language from the stimulus to the imagination that
the arrival of these foreigners brought, with their new ideas and them
new ways to look at things, their strange customs, manners and
religions.
The second the important factor that strikes the spoken language is a
you differentiate in culture and training. The discourse of the gentleman differs
from that of the rustic one. The conversational language of Terence, for
you quote an example, it is on an airplane taller than that of Plautus, while the characters
in Plautus you use the best Latin that the freedmen in Petronius. The
illiterate freedmens in Petronius very differently speak from the citizens
in his/her history. A particular occupation sometimes strikes materially the
discourse of those that undertakes him. All of us know anything of the linguistic one
the eccentricities of the London cabman, the Parisian thief or the American
idle worker. This particular influence cannot be valued so well for the Latin
because it misses us material enough, but some progress has been made in
discovering the particularities of Latin of the room of his/her/their children, the field and the
sea.
Clearly a spoken language is not never uniform in a whole determined area.