Re: English syllable structure

Quoting jogloran <exponent@...>:

> <<
> Anton Sherwood <bronto@P...> wrote:
> 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
>
> Are you referring to the many dialects of Italian? Well those aren't
> all one language, then, eh?
That was the point.  The dialects are so divergent,
and are in many cases not mutually intelligible,
that it is better to call them different languages.

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