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Re: CHAT: Back on the list; Anti-conlanging bigots

From:jogloran <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 8:45
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David Peterson <DigitalScream@A...> wrote:

    You know, Pinnochio: The little puppet whose nose grows long when
he
lies?  It's an old Italian allegory.  I've been dying to read the
original.

>>
It's spelt Pinocchio, though. It's written by an Italian author with the pen name Collodi. Back when I was learning Italian, I fortunately found the book in a library in its original Italian form and read that. It is a little different from the Disney version. I have a feeling that some bowdlerisation has occured... Imperative