Re: Gascon

--- On Sun, 2/15/09, Octavià Alexandre <oalexandre@...> wrote:

> From: Octavià Alexandre <oalexandre@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Gascon
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 5:34 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Funny
> >> but
> >> one Portuguese teacher of phonology I once had
> >> taught that
> >> Catalan was actually a Spanishified dialect of
> Southern
> >> French !
> >> It aint an easy field...
> >>
> >> Arnaud
> > >
> > > More like Occitan is Frenchified Catalan
> > >
> > =======
> >
> > I'm not sure "Occitan" is anything but a
> kind of political myth
> recently
> > invented to subsume the diverse dialects : provençal,
> franco-provençal,
> > gascon, etc.
> > Provençal and gascon speakers are so adamant their
> own variety is
> like
> > nothing else that it has always foiled all attempts at
> a common
> orthography
> > for "Occitan".
> > What are the ten major differences between Catalan and
> French in the
> first
> > place ?
> >
> Although Arnaud is a French imperialist and I won't
> talk to him (BTW,
> France holds the northern part of Catalonia since the 17th
> century and
> for French imperialism Barcelona is the southern vertex of
> the hexagon)
> due to his lack of respect towards me, I'd recommend to
> the interested
> readers Pèire (Pierre) Bec's book La langue occitane.
> He devises an
> Occitano-Romance language group comprising Languedocian,
> Provençal,
> Gascon and Catalan among other varieties. Franco-Provençal
> DOESN'T
> form part of this group.

It's "transitional" between French and Romansch, isn't it?