Re: English syllable structure

Quoting jogloran <exponent@...>:

> <<"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
>
> That's more or less right.  Italy has a population of about
> 56 million people.  Of those only about 30 million speak
> a dialect remotely similar to the Standard.
> >>
>
> Kind of like Chinese "dialects", I suppose...
Indeed.  The Italian government, like its Chinese counterpart,
even pretends that they are not, in fact, separate languages.
That would only give the Lega Nord political fodder, and we
can't have that.

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