E Elizabeth2 Guest Feb 5, 2008 #61 MrS said: Actually Latin was the common language of the “man in the streets” St Jerome’s translation into Latin is called the Vulgate, Vulgate means the “vulgar”… not the crude, but the common or base language of the masses (no pun). . Click to expand... that’s what I thought but wasn’t sure. The nuns that taught me 50 years ago were darn good.
MrS said: Actually Latin was the common language of the “man in the streets” St Jerome’s translation into Latin is called the Vulgate, Vulgate means the “vulgar”… not the crude, but the common or base language of the masses (no pun). . Click to expand... that’s what I thought but wasn’t sure. The nuns that taught me 50 years ago were darn good.
