Re: Latin and Oscan


Marco Pagliero wrote:


I am sure Gallia was never speaking Latin, not in the first century and
not afterwards, because things don't go that way.

"Gaul", not "Gallia", if you don't mind. - Gaul certainly was never
speaking classical Latin, but do you insist the language must needs
have been _pidginized_? Isn't it plausible enough to postulate a
heavily colloquial and slangy kind of language which arrived to Gaul in
the mouths of the legionaries and, being far removed from Rome, was
never subject to the secondary standardizing influences of metropolitan
usage?

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