marcin
(Marcin)
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folklore, but expressive worlds often of
considerable quality.
Having to choose some texts for a small
Twentieth -Century anthology of Latium, it
is not possible to take into account (and it
would be interesting to delve into the
linguistic spirituality of idioms such as the
one from Tolfa, almost totally feminine in
gender) experiences outside of Rome.
Rome now has over four million
inhabitants, the areas still tied to dialect
remain Trastevere and Testaccio, but a new
vernacular is being born based on the slangy
“romanesco” of the suburbs and outskirts;
this combines with the “generic” speech of
immigrants who have become citizens of the
capital and have acquired the cadence of the
Roman dialect. It was fated to happen,
because a metropolis like Rome, with the
strength of its history, lures the out-of-