Re: R: Re: "y" and "r"

Mangiat scripsit:

> [T]here is also in the way one pronounces the national
> language great difference between this and that region, or even between this
> and that town within the same region.
But how great?  Enough to prevent mutual intelligibility?
And are some pronunciations favored above others?
You state that Tuscan pronunciation is supposedly favored, except for
some features which are not, suggesting that there is an abstract
norm which is most favored everywhere, even if nobody actually
uses it.

> Then there's the sentence's intonation, by means of which every Italian
> speaker can understand where is the guy he's talking to from (hey, after the
> recent thread about relative clauses I seriously doubt the correctness of
> this last one. Would this cacophonious 'to from' be allowed?)
No.  It should be "where the guy he's talking to is from".

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter