"Private Voices" Topic
5 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please avoid recent politics on the forums.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the General Historical Discussion Message Board Back to the Ancients Media Message Board Back to the ACW Discussion Message Board
Areas of InterestGeneral
Ancients
American Civil War
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Recent Link
Featured Ruleset
Featured Workbench Article
Featured Book Review
|
Please sign in to your membership account, or, if you are not yet a member, please sign up for your free membership account.
| Old Contemptible | 10 Jul 2023 10:17 p.m. PST |
Private Voices is the offspring of the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL) project, an effort to amass a large number of letters penned by individuals with limited educations who knew little about formal conventions of punctuation and capitalization. altchive.org |
robert piepenbrink  | 11 Jul 2023 1:32 p.m. PST |
"individuals with limited educations who knew little about formal conventions of punctuation and capitalization" That would describe a lot of airmen and soldiers I knew in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Quite a number of them had four-year degrees. |
| arthur1815 | 12 Jul 2023 1:09 a.m. PST |
Badly written – in terms of spelling, punctuation and grammar – pieces can often be very revealing of how ordinary people actually spoke and pronounced words. For example, the memoir of Bartlett Yancey Malone shows that he pronounced 'courthouse' as 'coathouse'. |
| Old Contemptible | 13 Jul 2023 10:57 p.m. PST |
The point I think is these are letters overlooked by Authors and Historians because they didn't sound eloquent enough. But some of these letters say much more than the words on paper. link |
| Old Contemptible | 14 Jul 2023 5:37 p.m. PST |
Sorry, I didn't intend this for the Ancients Media Board. |
|
