Speaking of Wikipedia, I have been involved in a robust discussion today on the facebook page about the spelling of technical terms and the like,...
Further to the above, I just wanted to add one more important point. Note that I just translated the first sentence of the Italian wiki, and then...
That's a good answer, thanks very much for that!
After many years away from the Sicilian wikipedia, I got up the courage the other day to create my first article in nearly 9 years! For those who...
It has been a very, very long time since I did any editing in the Sicilian wikipedia, but if anyone needs any help getting around, or would like a...
I put up a similar conversation on the facebook page. I thought it was interesting enough to put here as well. Here are the last few lines of...
This question reminds me that often in English we find more than one word to express the same thing, or variations of the same word, or slight...
My family used macari (provincia di Catania). One thing I like about the word is that with just a small change in intonation, you can give it a...
Thanks Paul. By the way, it's a shame this forum is not better utilised. I find facebook a bit too higgly piggly for my liking, whereas a forum...
This is a useful link, everything to do with Giuseppe Pitrè on Google books:...
Further to the above, I now recall someone pointing out that the Spanish word for "word" is palabra, that is, the Spanish too have witnessed the...
I can see both sides of the debate. For a long time, the texts I had made it clear that Sicilian was neo-Latin, that is, it didn't descend...
Nun ni scurdamu ca Giuseppe Pitrè nn’arricugghiu tanti favuli e cunti nnô sò capudòpira Fiabe, novelle e racconti popolari siciliani . Nun sunnu...
Hi Paul, thanks for the response. I'll check out the Facebook page. I have quite a large personal library of Sicilian texts, dictionaries,...
Firstly, allow me to say how happy I was to stumble across your site. I recently had an urge to get back into reading and writing in Sicilian,...
This is just another case (of countless cases) where the common Sicilian usage has been absolutely swamped by Italian. For most young Sicilians,...
Bonner and Cipolla are pretty good, I found Privitera far too basic and and the language a bit too Italianised. Giuseppe Pitre's Grammatica...
Grazzi assai Paulu pi tutt'u to travagghiu
Happy to have found this forum and keen to read and write some sicilian (although I need to get back into practice). Tutti li matiriali s'hannu a...
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