#latin privilege

I call on all my followers to resist the prescriptivist, ethnocentric standard of written Latin! There is no point writing Latin in a style that froze somewhere in the late Republic and was spoken by upper-class Romans like Cicero et alia. Why do we force these classist restrictions on ourselves and write in standard, ““good”” Latin? There is nothing GOOD about a standard which silences the common people!!!

I beg of you, don’t write “Marcus mihi librum patris dat,” use the language of the PEOPLE and write, “Marcus mi da libru de patre.” This is SO important!!!