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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="utf-8"> | |
| <title>latin2</title> | |
| <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> | |
| <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cinzel' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <ol class="evolving-header"> | |
| <!-- CONSIDER: A phrase with J & U in it, to get a chance to mention that they don't exist yet (perhaps also a W-sound). --> | |
| <!-- <li> | |
| TODO Write in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive first | |
| </li> --> | |
| <li> | |
| <p class="hand-written">DICOSALVE</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| These are <mark>Rustic capitalis</mark>, the likes you might find in (fairly well written?) papyrus from ? BCE -- ? CE (in Roman aristocracy / high society(?)). | |
| <!-- TODO: Add photo of rustic writing --> | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p class="hand-written">DICO·SALVE</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| Let’s add a word divider; an <mark>interpunct</mark>.<br> | |
| Common in classical Latin, but fell out of use ~200 CE. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p class="hand-written">DICO SALVE</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| <mark>Spaces</mark> was used by students in learning (to differentiate words?), but was <mark>considered childish</mark> | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p class="inscription">DICO·SALVE</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| Inscriptions often used <mark>Roman square capitals</mark>.<br> | |
| See: inscriptions on Pantheon & Trajan's Column.</p> | |
| <!-- TODO: Add photo of an inscription --> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p>Dico Salve</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| Lower case wasn't around for more than 1 000 years... | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p>Dico: “Salve!”</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| Colon, quotation marks & exclamatn mark, ...also new. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p>Dīcō: “Salvē!”</p> | |
| <p class="comment"> | |
| While we are at it; macrons showsus where to put the stress. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ol> | |
| <section> | |
| TODO: Go on to describe etymology / cognates to make the actual words understandable. | |
| </section> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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| @font-face { | |
| font-family: 'Roman Rustica'; | |
| src: url('https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7449985/fonts/Roman-Rustica.ttf'); | |
| } | |
| body { | |
| background: #ffe; | |
| color: #222; | |
| } | |
| p { font-family: serif; } | |
| .hand-written { font-family: 'Roman Rustica'; } | |
| .inscription { font-family: 'Cinzel'; } | |
| .evolving-header { font-size: 1.25em; } | |
| .evolving-header .comment { | |
| } | |
| .evolving-header li .comment { | |
| background: wheat; | |
| box-shadow: 3px 3px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35); | |
| padding: 0.5em; | |
| font-size: 0.8em; | |
| margin-right: 1em; | |
| } |
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Make these huge?
Each variant ~fills a screen?
-- get the proper focus from the Educon!