Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: [romconlang] Romlang splitting off ~0-100 CE

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, March 23, 2006, 12:08
staving Benct Philip Jonsson:

>>Graffiti at Pompeii would be helpful as it got preserved in the 1st century. > >Is there any study of the language of latin graffiti? >I did a couple of library searches to no avail.
One interesting fact about Pompeiian grafitti, which I remember from Latin at school, is that it attests forms such as "marithus". This is why I have always thought that the speech habit described in Catullus' "Chommoda dicebat" cannot be ascribed entirely to hypercorrection - who would hypercorrect graffitti? Pete