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

Frank Frost Abbott

Capitolo 37

it influences mechanics. We have already noticed that the tendency of the
syllable accented in a word to absorb effort and attention conducted to the
the obscuring of certain ending consonants, because the ending syllable was
it never protected from the accent. This way hortus in of the parts of the empire
become hortu in pronunciation to the agenda and the caelum of the neuter, sky,
become caelu. The consequent identity in the end behavior to a confusion in
the kind, and to the last treatment of the word for "sky" as a
masculine. These influences and others provoked many changes in the kind
of names in popular discourse, and in progress of provoked time the
the elimination of the kind of neuter from the neo-Latin languages.

Anything has already been said of the dictionary of the common people. It
it was naturally very smaller than that than cultivated people. His/her poverty
it made their monotonous style when they had occasion to express him
in writing, as one can see in the light ones the account of St. AEtheria of his/her trip
to the Earth Saint, and clearly this impression of the monotony is elevated
from the inability of such writer to vary the form of expression. Also among
his small series differs from the dictionary of the formal Latin in three or
four important respects. It doesn't have occasion or little cause use,
certain words that it hires a formal writer, or it uses substitutes for
them. Then head was used partly for caput and bucca for os. On the other
gives, it assumes the certain words and sentences, for example vulgar words and
exclamations that are not admitted in the literature.

In his/her choice of words it shows a preference marked for some suffixes
and appointed. It would furnish an interesting excursion in people
the psychology to speculate on the reasons for this preference in a case and
another. Sometimes it is possible to extend the influence to job. In
it is very probable that to read a piece of popular Latin is thrilled with
the great number of diminutives that I/you/they are used, sometimes in the severe one
sense of the primitive word. The frequency of this use remembers to one in
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