Re: Vulgar Latin
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 7, 2000, 17:26 |
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Steven Martindale wrote:
>Well I'm pleased to have prompted a moderately popular thread, but the
>original question I asked seems to have slipped, so let's try a more
>directly titled message..
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>Can anyone suggest a good book on vulgar latin?
I have a few, but don't have authors or titles handy at the moment.
I'll look when I get home.
>And perhaps just as
>important, any I might want to avoid (I happened to pick up a book on
>Tolkien's languages a couple of years ago, only to discover a week later
>that it appears to be widely viewed as almost completely inaccurate by the
>community of Tolkien Language scholars..)
Is this the little red book, "Languages of Middle Earth" or somesuch?
I'd been told it's inaccurate as well; but no one seemed to have any
thing _more_ accurate to recommend.
Padraic.
>Steven,