>>12817328You braindead retard. Most of our graffiti comes from a handful of areas that were unique in their primarily Latin speaking population, namely the army camp (where every single soldier was forced to speak and read and write Latin) of Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall, Fayuum in Egypt, and Pompeii/Herculaneum where they were Latin speaking Italians. The average peasant in the countryside of the province of Britain would have spoken and written (if he was capable of writing at all) in the Briton language that his ancestors had spoken for a thousand years. He'd have known a bit of Latin insofar as it was necessary to do his taxes and deal with officials.
