There are a lot of linguistic changes that have happened from classical Latin to just the medieval Romance languages, and then we still have about 800 years to go until the present. Since most people use their knowledge and intuition on modern romance, there are lot of the aspects that someone may want to include in their personal version of Vulgar Latin (Early Romance may be a better term, but I'll keep using this subreddit's name for now) that are in fact much later (but universal) changes or a mix of very conservative and very progressive features that don't fit well together. (Something that will inevitably will happen to anyone to some degree and most definitely to me)
It may be wise to point out that Vulgar Latin (as the ancestor of romance) is not the language of the slums nor of the fields; Vulgar Latin was the speech of the middle class. Whereas educated speech grew to be highly artificial over the years, Vulgar Latin grew out of well-spoken early Classical Latin and didn't try to stay artificially archaic. Even in this dichotomy of Vulgar and Classical Latin, texts would probably be spoken aloud in their modern pronunciation, especially later on when the two were considerably different. As such, when Karolus Magnus came around, Latin texts would be read out with more or less a contemporary pronunciation, kind of how the current French orthography fairly accurately represents the late Old French/early Middle French pronunciation, but still is read it out as modern French. Charlemagne instating the classical pronunciation rendered Latin texts unintelligible to Romance speakers without formal education.
As for this project of mine, I do not know how often I will post or how my "format" will be. Originally I wanted to do the whole thing in Vulgar Latin itself, to keep into the spirit of this subreddit. However, speaking/writing in a language that I am not fluent in as well as needing to think of the historical correctness and proper grammar, phonology etc. for every single word (I'm very perfectionistic regarding the aspects I know anything about) renders me incapable of expressing and explaining the subtleties of what I really want to say and it is a heck of a lot more work. Then my plan was to make big all in-compassing posts about certain topics. I however noticed here too that it's too much work in one go each time and there are too many side stories I wanna mention along the way (look at how big this post already is without me even starting on
... keep reading on reddit ➡Nu har vi vel alle hørt om de her minkfarme, der har utroligt meget coronavirus, og det har jo så ført til at virussen har muteret.
Det jeg bare ikke forstår er, hvorfor virussen ikke allerede er muteret, der er jo tre gange så mange mennesker i verden, der har fået konstateret corona (48 millioner) som der overhovedet er mink i Danmark (Jeg ved ikke noget som helst om mink, men der bliver i hvert fald slået 18 millioner ihjel om året, så det kan godt være der er endnu flere).
Hvorfor er det så et problem, at minkene nu har fået coronavirus?
(Jeg er egentlig bare nysgerrig)
Phil
