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Article #100Re: Are you sure? No, definite.
From: Rich Alderson
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:14
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:14
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In article <1992Jul17.095642.4854@cc.ic.ac.uk>, shan@ee (Shan Parfilt) writes:
>The 'vulgar' in 'Vulgar Latin' is another term like
>'mutilated', although this particular phrase has come in time to stand
>for a particular type of Latin (ie non- 'standard').
The term "vulgar" in "Vulgar Latin" is from the adjective "vulgaris," derived
in turn from the noun "vulgus" meaning "people." Other pairs in the same
semantic field are populus/popularis and plebs/plebeius.
That is, it is simply "Latin of the (common, man in the street) people" opposed
to the Latin of Caesar, Cicero, and the like.
The value judgment arises in the understanding of *non-linguists* for whom the
word "vulgar" has a different, pejorative meaning.
--
Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
--J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
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Newsgroups: sci.lang,soc.culture.french,soc.culture.german Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!alderson From: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) Subject: Re: Are you sure? No, definite. In-Reply-To: shan@ee.ic.ac.uk (Shan Parfilt) Message-ID: <1992Jul21.051411.13623@leland.Stanford.EDU> Followup-To: sci.lang Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Reply-To: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) Organization: Stanford University Academic Information Resources References: <189@spchsys.spchsys> <92197.102334GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul16.140732.9830@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Jul17.095642.4854@cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 05:14:11 GMT Lines: 19