Re: Latin and commemorative names #2a :)

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• To: m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: Re: Latin and commemorative names #2a :)
• From: m* f* <f*@inrete.it>
• Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 10:57:16 +0100

At 16.07 02/01/98 -0800,R.Beer <bbeer@u.washington.edu> you wrote:


>It's also a fact that speakers of different Romance languages tend to
>approach Latin pronunciation from the standpoint of their own languages. 
>(And are certainly closer to a "correct" pronunciation of Latin than
>Americans!) But the "gn" being "soft" in French and Italian (as well as in
>Spanish, though they now write it n~), does not mean that it was so in
>latin.  Why it's so now would open a linguistic discussion that would be
>at home in alt.sci.linguistics but not here. :) 

i can agree;then,please,pronounce as you want but say not that in French or
in Latin one prounces so:-),thanks.
Lingua dolis instructa mucrone nocentior ipsa:-).


>Gee, this has made me tired and hungry, maybe I should go have a nice
>plate of guh-nocchi. :) :)

in American or Italian way?there are surely the same differences than
in our previous statements:-).

ciao and Happy New Year

marco

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