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

Frank Frost Abbott

Capitolo 28

Dialect differences are sure to develop. A man from Indiana and another
from Maine it will be sure to observe each other the particularities. Also the
binary, the newspaper and the wish of public school never completely
you obliterate the old differences or prevents one new to jump on.
Without these agencies that so a lot they make to promote to-day of uniformity,
Italy and the rest of the empire have had to show greater dialect
differences that we observe in American English or in British English
also.

In the interest of clearly revealing some of the points of the difference
among the vulgar and formal Latin we have used the certain illustrations, as
_caballus_, where the two forms of discourse were opposite radically to each
other, but they didn't clearly constitute two different languages, and
what in common that they had it was greater than the particular element far to
each, or, to put him/it in another way, they in the great measure covered each
other. Perhaps we am now in a position to characterize Latin colloquial
and to define him/it as the language in everything which was used in conversation
the empire with the innumerable variations that calculate and place gave him/it,
what in his/her extremely refined form, as spoken in you look for literary to
Rome of classical period, indefinitely drew near near his/her ideal,
Latin literary that was the ill-mannered discourse in his/her non conventional phase
of the riotous crowd or the "sermo inconditus" of the venerable old men. The facts that
you/he/she has been mentioned as soon as you/he/she can be illustrated from the accompanying diagrams.

[The illustration: the Fig tree. ME]

[The illustration: the Fig tree. II]

[The illustration: the Fig tree. III]

[The illustration: the Fig tree. IV]

In Fig tree. Me the heavy-ruled ellipse represents the formal diction of Cicero,
the ellipse of dotted line his/her conversational dictionary. They covers each
other through a great part of their extension, but there is sure
literary locutions that would rarely be used by him in conversation, and
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