Re: Vulgar Latin

At 01:26 PM 6/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>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.
Much appriciated!

>>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.
Yeah, the little red book.  So far as I've been able to find out it's all
that's in print right now.  I suppose the only way to get something better
right now is to combine what's online with actually going through by hand
and doing the research oneself.


Steven, (Only three months behind :>)
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