The dialects, the social class differences and the register (i.e., high or low stories) all come through in the language.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- 27/06/2014 11:15:53 PM
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I really need to get around to reading it in Italian, I see
- 28/06/2014 10:23:42 AM
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It has a lot more color in Italian
- 28/06/2014 03:12:45 PM
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I really enjoyed it when I read it a few years ago. (In translation, of course.)
- 30/06/2014 02:45:00 PM
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The Canterbury Tales suffers from being derivative of the Decameron.
- 30/06/2014 08:06:59 PM
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