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#44006 10/09/01 05:48 PM
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Well, Faldage, my hat is off to anyone who can come up with (or make up) the Latin for outfielder. As Winnie ille Pu might have said, "De pilis semper dubitandum est."


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Hooray, another linguist's brains to pick. Welcome, rbarr.

When I was doing some research for another question (my Latin study ended in the sixth form, although my interest in Rome and Latin has never ceased), I came across a page which described research that was being carried out on graffiti on the walls of various places that Roman "tourists" - usually legionnaries, I would imagine - saw fit to write or scribe. A kind of classical "Kilroy was here" thing. From memory, the graffiti were all deemed to be written during the Imperial period, most probably up to the Antonine period, although some (in Pompeii and Herculaneum) could not be later than 79AD, could they?

The upshot of it seemed to be that even as early as AD79 word order had got sloppy and word endings were - um, ablating.

I would be delighted if you or someone else could point me at that research again. It was embedded in a page I found while I was looking for something else, and no amount of Googling seems to be able to get it back!



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I remember reading something recently Latin to Portuguese? that claimed that even BC Vulgar Latin was more into the auxiliary verb structure in the manner of modern Romance languages rather than the highly conjugated verbs of Classical Latin.

Course my memory ain't what it used to be But then it never really was


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Bobyoungbalt posted on Tue Oct 9 10:45:49 2001

...In 1950 there was still a Latin oration given at commencement exercises at Oxford...



...and Harvard has one every Commencement, even now


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This thread from another board discusses the survival of Latin and mentions that Finnish radio broadcasts the news in Latin.

http://forums.about.com/ab-ancienthist/messages?msg=1082.1

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