Capitolo 32
those qualities that we noticed in Latin preliterary. Those
characteristics are, in fact, to be waited him in conversation. When a man
set down his/her thoughts on paper he is expressed with care and with a
certain reserve in its affirmations and him usually has precisely in mind that that
he means. But in to speak him it is not under this constraint. He is
probably to express him in a tautological, happy-go-lucky, or also illogical
way. He thinks out at the end what he rarely has in mind, but freely
it adds clauses or sentences, as new ideas happen to him.
We am thinking as soon as mainly to the relationship of words to one
another in a sentence. In the treatment of individual words, written and
spoken Latin developed long different lines. In English we do little
distinction among the quantity of vowels, but in Latin clearly a determined
vowel was long or short, and literary tradition it became so sheltered in
this matter that the professional poets of the Augustan grow old it doesn't do
you bear some deviation from him. I am however there, indications that the
common people didn't observe the rules of quantity in their integrity. Us
to quickly understand because that is been able to be the case. The comparative one
thoughtlessness that is characteristic of conversation strikes ours
pronunciation of words. When there is an accent of stress, as there it was in
Latin, this is especially responsible to be the case. We know in English as
very the syllables not accented suffer in a long word as "laboratory." In
Latin the vowels not accented and long and the ending syllable that you/they were never
protected by the accent, it was particularly probable to lose their full value.
In Latin conversational the certain ending consonants minded to accordingly,
you allow to fall away, and probably the vowel following and along a short it was regularly
it shortened when the accent fell on the short syllable, or on the syllable
what it followed the long one. Some researchers go as to maintain that till now
in progress of time every distinction in quantity in the vowels not accented was