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Re: pronunciation of Latin

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From: J. Kanze
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
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macchi@marina.scn.de (Gian Carlo Macchi) writes:

> >Is there any dialect that uses just one phoneme for both?
> 
> I've never heard such a dialect (perhaps somebody can help): however note 
> that, at present, also dialects are influenced by Italian (often horrible) 
> spoken by radio and TV.

My wife's from Como (on the Swiss border), and is incapable of
pronouncing an open o (which gives her a very strange accent in French,
not at all Italian).  I believe that this is general for "Ticinese".
(They do use both e's however.)

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Subject: Re: pronunciation of Latin
Date: 1997/02/23
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