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the analogy of other forms that says every now and then the illiterate man: "Me swum,"
or, "me the clumb", or "he doesn't do, but there is small opportunity to do a
error. However, with three son-in-laws, five declinations for names, a fixed
method of comparison for adjectives and adverbs, an elaborate system of
pronouns, with asset and witness, regular and irregular verbs, four
conjunctions and a synthetic method and complex to form the humors and
oral times, the pits for the hurled Roman were without number as the
actual student of the Latin can testify to his/her pain. What a the man in
the road that didn't have any newspaper to standardize his/her Latin and little
happens to learn him/it in the school, anymore errors doesn't commit it is amazing. In
a way many of the errors that he did historically were not errors to
everybody. This fact will quickly appear from an illustration or two. In ours
you observe of Latin preliterary we had occasion to observe that one of his
characteristics were a lack of the fixity in the use of forms or constructions.
In the third century before ours it was, a Roman could say audibo or audiam,
contemplor or I contemplate, senatus consultum or senates consultum. Thanks to
the efforts of the scientific grammarian, and to systematize
it influences how Greek it practiced on Latin verbs, more anymore and literary you/he/she was done
witness or active once for everybody, a determined name was permanently assigned
a particular declination, a verb to a conjunction and the disdains
tendency that the language had to the analytical method to form the
humors and oral times were checked briefly. The common people clearly tried
to imitate them improves in all these matters but the old varying uses
persisted to of the extension, and the reasonable men didn't succeed in grabbing the
the accuracies of the new grammar to many points. Especially its failures were
well visible where the literary and approved form didn't seem to follow the
principles of analogy. When these principles are involved, the ground of common ownership