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From:  "Vale [^_^]" <valevanni@m...>
"Vale [^_^]" <valevanni@m...>
Date:  Fri Feb 2, 2001  2:16 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Italian Diction


On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:51:58
Caio Rossi wrote:
>VAle wrote:
>
>You must have an "Academia" for the language. It's a tradition in all
>countries where a Romance language is spoken. It may, though, not say
>anything about proper pronunciation, since they're generally more >related to
vocabulary and grammar issues. In Brazil, we have >the "Cultured" Norms
Institute, at the Universidade de Sco Paulo, >and the "Academia" ( which is
composed by famous linguists and >writers ). The first one in more scientific,
while the second one is >more traditionalist. I don't exactly know how they
relate to each >other.

I think that our equivalent institute is the "Accademia della Crusca".


>In Italian, you have OFFICIALLY decided not to use the graphic sign >for
stress on the third syllable ( counting from the end back ). If >we want to do
that, it must pass in all congresses of all countries >where Portuguese is
spoken! An American newspaper would have a hard >time trying to spell 'resume'
with no, one, or two graphic signs in >our countries. Folha de Sco Paulo, a big
daily newspaper here, >decided to extinguish the 'umlauts' by itself and is
still >criticized for 'attacking' the language with such an americanism! >The
same ( and much stronger ) reaction happens in France.

I now that there (in France) language has a more authoritative source: some
year ago came out a paper, I think from some department, that dissuaded from
using foreign words; instead, it suggested a list of french synonyms (i.e.
computer? NO!!! ordinateur!!!).

bye



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