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[claudia castellani]

A big hug to you, dear Rosina!!
And thank you for your very interesting observations!
Grazie di cuore,

Claudia


>From: Rosina Lila <BlaroliaAOL.COM>

>Cara Claudia,
>Two observations on your message:    that the Italian language is beautiful
>cannot be questioned.  Linguists, all over the planet, have gone to great
>lengths to emphasize the fact that. dryly unpleasant as the spoken voice
>is, it
>becomes almost musical when Tuscan Italian is spoken.  The reason given is
>that,
>besides being a purely phonetic language, the Italian of Petrarca and Dante
>has more vowels than consonants than any other language on earth.  Yet,
>spoken
>Italian does vary from region to region, and in some areas one is hard put
>to
>understand it when it is spoken.
>.... Spanish, another lovely phonetic language, forms its plurals by adding
>a
>consonant, rather than changing the ending vowel, at the end of the
>modified
>word(s), and it has many Arab influenced double-consonant diphthongs,
>etc;,therefore the musical cadenza of vowels floating is often fractured,
>even
>although it may be sensed somewhere in the background.
>Close cousins, both lovely languages.
>
>But I cannot agree with your contention that Italian is little known or
>spoken by other than Italians.  Thousands and thousands of opera lovers all
>over
>the world (really... all over the world), know enough Italian to make
>themselves
>understood here and there.  Standing on the line at the Caracole baths in
>Rome, or outside the Fenice (about to be reborn) in Venice, or La Scala in
>Milano, or almost anywhere in Florence, one meets tentative Italian
>speakers, over
>and over, who reveal that they learned Italian by studying Opera libretti.
>So,
>there.
>
>Well, this is my last message for a while.
>
>Purtroppo, nothing in life comes easy.... not even desired dreams.
>I stayed up last night til the wee hours of the morning watching, and
>rewatching,  the Democratic convention, and now I want to stay home and put
>both my
>shoulders to the wheel.
>Well..... I guess I'll be back in plenty of time to jump into the fray.
>(...Do you think is kosher to walk the Camino for political reasons?  Gee
>gads!)
>OK. A packing toast to you, my fellow pilgrims, with Prosecco... of course.
>and a big affectionate hug!
>Rosina
>
>

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