Re: Questions and Impressions of Basque

In a message dated 8/31/04 9:46:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:

<< In fact yes.  After all, you can walk from Gibraltar to Brussels to the
 southernmost tip of Italy without ever crossing a "hard" language
 barrier, at least in terms of traditional dialect.  (But take your
 mountain boots.) >>
The professor who taught a seminar in medieval Romance languages I took years
ago said it was fascinating to take the slow local train from  Barcelona to
Genoa
and hear the dialect change just a little every few stops.
John Leland