marcin
(Marcin)
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therefore the children of a truly separate
linguistic civilization, although they
consider themselves very much children of
the great Sardinian mother, with which they
retain very close ties. The question, in the
end, is almost frivolous and idle since if one
stops to consider it is not even relevant if a
poet writes in dialect or in Italian, if it is true
that he is such not on the basis of the
linguistic instrument adopted, but
exclusively on the strength of the results
achieved. The dialectologic querelle that
from time to time gains new momentum,
from different angles and perspectives
(whether dialect has already disappeared or
is about to become extinct, so that it would
be better to file away any question relative
to it; whether it is legitimate to place on the
same level dialect poetry and Italian poetry;
whether one should reserve for dialect a