Section 05 of 05 · three entries
05
The language on the page
The instrument itself: the spoken variety of inland Lugo, the spelling arguments that ran for a century, and the sound a silent reader has to rebuild.
The entries
- 01Terra Chá speechThe variety of the flat inland country, and what a poet does with a spoken register on a printed page.
- 02OrthographyHow a language is spelled is a decision somebody made, and in Galician it has been argued over for a century.
- 03Reading aloudThe poems were written for a voice, and the sound is the part a silent reader has to reconstruct.
In pictures
01Terra Chá speech
The variety of the flat inland country, and what a poet does with a spoken register on a printed page.
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02Orthography
How a language is spelled is a decision somebody made, and in Galician it has been argued over for a century.
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03Reading aloud
The poems were written for a voice, and the sound is the part a silent reader has to reconstruct.
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