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It's actually rather hard to believe that Latin didn't have some form of rhyming slang although I have no evidence to support its existence. I remember reading some years ago that Latin seems to have generated at least some of its slang by shortening words by dropping the endings off. Originally this was believed to be simple written shorthand, but the argument ran that it was too consistent, and that this was just writ as it was spoke.
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Latin seems to have generated at least some of its slang by shortening words by dropping the endings off.
I think that Vulgar Latin (AKA plebeius sermo) relied more on word order than on inflectional endings to indicate those relationships between words that we refer to as case.
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And I imagine that context played a large part in understanding, too. It would be interesting to read things written by people who used the vulgar forms of the language to see if they wrote as they spoke as a matter of course, or whether, like us, they understood the difference between Latin as spoken and Latin as written formally.
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I think most of what we know about sermo plebeius is from written sources, i.e., grafitti. You know, stuff like Poppaea bene futuit.
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You meant: Poppaea bene futuit, salutas: V-V-V-I-III-VIII-IV-VII-IX, surely?
Kinda carving out a reputation for herself ...
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salutas: V-V-V-I-III-VIII-IV-VII-IX
Sommat like that.
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Did I get the number wrong? Do you know the right one? Poppaea is in great demand, you know. A wrong number could be ... Neroian!
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*rimshot*
or however *they used ta say it...
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