Timeline for Inconsistent use of short and long vowel signs
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| Jul 1, 2021 at 16:51 | answer | added | Rossano Fragale | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:47 | vote | accept | bobsmith76 | ||
| Jun 23, 2021 at 1:25 | answer | added | Asteroides | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 20:52 | comment | added | cmw♦ | @SebastianKoppehel You should just go ahead and turn this into an answer. | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 19:39 | comment | added | Sebastian Koppehel | In other words, you, the educated Latin speaker who knows all the rules but not necessarily all the words, do not need Messrs. Lewis & Short to tell you the length of the 'i' and 'a', but the 'u' could very well be long, and so they make it clear it is short. Keep in mind that Lewis & Short's dictionary used to be a very expensive tool for professional Latinists and was not intended for pupils in Latin class. | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 19:32 | comment | added | Sebastian Koppehel | “What, does he think it is obvious what the quantity of 'i' and 'a' is but for 'u' he decided to make it entirely clear?” – well, it may not be “obvious,” but yes: the 'i' before 'ns' becomes nasal and is automatically long. The 'a' is the nominative ending of the first declension and is therefore short. | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 9:25 | history | asked | bobsmith76 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |