marcin
(Marcin)
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give you my news that I’m all right so I hope
this letter finds you and the children in good
health. Dear Antonietta I have waited two
other days thinking I would receive your
letter and instead I didn’t see anything and I
was forced to put down these few lines; now
I am letting you know that Sunday Santi. A.
arrived (...)^6
The existence of “parallel schools,” the
mass media first of all, alongside
institutional schools, has hastened the
compression of dialects; today, with regard
to dialect literatures, syntagms such as “lost
words”^7 and “furtive languages”^8 are being
used. Meanwhile, the predictable adoption
of English as future official language of the
European Community could make the
Italian language, due to its limited diffusion,
into a European dialect, while more and