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

staving Benct Philip Jonsson:

>>Graffiti at Pompeii would be helpful as it got preserved in the 1st century.
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>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