Indexing Style Since 55 BCE

Sometimes you try to pronounce your words more Greek-ly and you are made fun of 2000 years later. The Roman poet Catullus wrote this poem about an acquaintance of his whose habit of aspiration was seen as an attempt to sound more Greek. Oh how it backfired.

Posted by Colin Moore on April 4, 2016

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Indexicality;
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