Re: English syllable structure

Quoting Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>:

> jogloran wrote:
> > I hadn't heard that spoken colloquial Italian was like a
> > completely different language from the literary language :)
>
> That's not true!
>
> Spoken colloquial Italian is like twenty completely
> different languages from the literary language.  :P
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.

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