Re: Other Vulgar Latins?

caeruleancentaur wrote:
>>R A Brown per pêca:
>
>
>>I have come across similar cases in English where a person from a h-
>>less 'working class' background has bettered himself/herself and
>>tries to "speak posh" and finishes up putting in aitches all over
>
> the >place.
>
> I come across a similar situation with my Mexican parishioners.
> I'll receive notes from them with [h] where it doesn't belong &
> omitted where it does belong.
>
> Likewise, there is confusion between [y] and [ll] and between [c]
> and [z].
Yep - and I've come across people in the UK who show similar confusion
between [f] and [T]. I remember well reading 'enuth' (= enough) in a
post-16 year old student's work not so long ago.

> This, of course, is not due to any attempts at "posh."  I think it
> merely reflects a less-than-thorough education.
Good point. I have little doubt that Arrius was trying to be "posh", as
was the headmaster I was thinking of when I wrote the previous e-mail.
But the less-than-through education thing would surely have applied in
the case of some of the VL graffiti, methinks.

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