Re: Who SPOKE Classical Latin in Rome?

Artem Kouzminykh wrote:
> I wander could someone suppose that social groups or people in Ancient Rome
> actually used Classical Latin, not Vulgar one, i.e. spoke it in theirs usual
> everyday life, for everyday communication? Poets, orators, high classes?..
> Who else?
Possibly no one.  Even a senator probably used Vulgar Latin when giving
orders to his slaves, for instance.  He probably would've used it with
others of his social class, tho.

> You see, I'd like to make them the ancestors of my Romula conlang speakers,
> to explain why Romula is so close to Classical (not Vulgar) Latin in
> vocabulary, so archaic.
Lots of education?  After all, education has managed to get most people
to stop using double negatives in English.

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