Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> > Well, no. We're talking about writing here, and the Romance languages
> > were already pretty differentiated before anybody thought to write them
> > down.
>
> That seems odd to me, since Latin already had a written form long before
> the differentiation? Or did people simply not equate writing and speech?
For a long time literate people spoke their local vernacular and wrote
Latin as well as they could. Only in very special cases did they attempt
to write the vernacular as well.
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