Vulgar Latin

um okay uh so it said i'll go alone oh the last term here we go the hebrew uh i'll go alone is old akitan oh i heard about akitan that's one of the um older dialect languages or dialects Old French, blah, blah, blah.

From the Vulgar Latin, blah, blah, blah.

The letter fit is what the Agulhon is spelling.

Its primary sense is exactly what Meiri describes.

One is written in an adapted Arabic script.

One is written in an adapted Latin script.

But they vary to the point that they can be mutually unintelligible.

Like London and Yorkshire.

I think most of them know them as word Nazis.

Right.

of the Académie Française are constantly trying to root out foreign, mostly English, loanwords, which they believe corrupt the language, which I think is pretty ironic because French itself is a mélange of vulgar Latin, Gaulish, even Germanic tongues.

But God help you if you say email instead of un courriel.

Wow.

The word, the word itself traces back, according to the academy, through Vulgar Latin verrea to the Latin veres, which means a boar.

So the worthless dish carries a pig in its name.

A pig.

Wow.

Uh, Vulgar Latin, I had to look this up.

Do you know what Vulgar Latin is? It's not swearing.

Um, no, I don't know then.

The late Dr. Gene Scott used to say mass comes from massa, the, the cakes they bake to the queen of heaven.

This is true, but if you read the etymology of the word mass as a noun, it's from the Vulgar Latin, which carries with it Eucharistic service, but literally, mass literally means in English dismissal.

Oh.

Do you want to go to mass? Would you like to be dismissed?

It is the Latin of everyday people.

So the vulgar Latin, we call it in Latino, vulgare, the vulgar Latin.

So it was the language that was spoken by everyday people and Italian evolved from that.

And the Italian that we speak today comes from the evolution of the language from Vulgar Latin into the Tuscan dialect.

And so the, specifically the Fiorentino, so the one from Florence.

And when we talk about the Italian today, again, it is the Italian that first comes from Latin and then it evolved with Tuscan dialect, specifically from Florence.