Capitolo 34
and - the chn - historically saying mine and techina for the correct mna and
techna. Another method to surmount the difficulty was to assimilate one
of the two consonants to the other. This is a practice favorite of the
shop-girl on which the newspapers do happy in their phonetical
reproductions of supposed conversations spoke apart back the box.
Adopting him/it same easy way to speak, the Roman without education sometimes
said isse for ipse and scritus for scriptus. To pass to another point of
you differentiate, the laws that determine the incidence of the accent were a lot of
established firmly in Latin literary. The accent has to fall on the penult,
if it were long, otherwise on the antepenult of the word. But in popular
Latin there were the certain classes of words in which the case these principles
you/he/she was not observed.
The a lot of nature of the accent probably differed in the two forms of
discourse. In Latin preliterary the stress was undoubtedly a marked characteristic
of the accent, and this continued to be the case in the popular discourse
in the whole whole history of the language, but, as I have tried
you try in another paper,[21] in Latin formal the stress became a lot of disdains,
and the pitch started to be the characteristic of characteristic of the accent.
Accordingly, when Virgil read a passage of the _AEneid_ to Augustus and
Livia the effect on the ear of the atonic language comparatively, with
the rhythmic increase and fall of the pitch, would have been very different
from that fact from the conversation of the reasonable man, with they accented him
syllables marked more clearly by a stress.
In this brief chapter we cannot try to go to details, and in
speaking of the morphology of the vulgar Latin we have to satisfy us with
drawing his/her general characteristics and tendencies, as we have done in
the case of his/her phonology. In English our forms of inflectional have been
meeting place to a minimum, and there is accordingly the small purpose for
the differences in this respect among the writing and spoken languages. From