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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
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Reply to an e mail that said it would appear here, and probably will:
Yes, Venetian is a langauge or dialect (take your pick).  It's been
influenced by Italian, but does not derive from Italian.  Rather,
Italian more or less derives from old Tuscan, though Tuscan is now a
"dialect" just like "Venetian" and all the others.

David

"When reading the works of an important thinker, look first for the
apparent absurdities in the text and ask yourself how a sensible person
could have written them.  When you find an answer, . . . when these
passages make sense, then you may find that more central passages,ones
you previously thought you understood, have changed their meaning."
Kuhn

