From: Etherman23
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 08:22:17 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@f...> wrote:
> Yes. But note one thing: We know that long and short vowels in
> Latin had different qualities only because of the mergings they
> suffered of in Vulgar Latin after quantity disappeared as a
> phonemic feature. But in "correct" Classical Latin, or Latin as
> spoken during the time of the Roman Republic, long and short vowels
> always had the same quality (namely, they were always tense).
That's the way I'll treat them then. Thanks.
> Well, as for the last "o", it's not marked for length because it's
> a well-known ending (nominative -o, genitive -onis). You should
> somewhere have a list of those endings with length marks indicated.
> Just report those length marks yourself :))).
I'll have to see if I can find such a list on the net since my
dictionary doesn't have one. That would be quite valuable, since my
case inflections almost all come from Latin.
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