marcin
(Marcin)
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that I cite in its entirety:
My dialect. It was the great philologist
Rohlfs who enlightened me on the Gallic-
Italian origins of the Potenza dialect, my
native city. In the years of my youth I was
guided in my linguistic journey solely by my
love for writing. I understood very early the
“uneasiness” of the Potenza dialect, its being
marginalized, “extraneous” to the
progressive historical consumma¬tion of
that language. In time, Potenza’s dialect has
changed, impoverishing the ancient semiotic
structures. It was spoken by farmers and
artisans, now it is spoken by very few
people. Pasquale Stoppelli wrote: “The fact
that the Potenza dialect has Gallic-Italic
origins has caused it to be influenced by the
dialects in the surrounding areas, rather than
spreading in the surrounding areas,
gradually losing its original northern