Talk:Tuscan gorgia

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As a native Italian speaker born in Florence and a linguist myself (though my field is semantics), I found this article very informative, accurate in every detail and clearly written, in spite of its lack of sources. I recommend it to anyone interested in this unique phonetic phenomenon, mostly to those Italians like myself who used to believe in an Etruscan heritage of the gorgia. Simone Dalla Chiesa Professorelm 10:04, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Romanian example
In the end of the article the following phrase appears: I would like to point out that hartă is a borrowing from modern Greek, where it also begins with h, so this example is irrelevant. In ancient Greek, the word began with ch (aspirated [k]), which was borrowed as charta in Latin. In Vulgar Latin the aspirated consonants were usually not pronounced as such, and from charta we have Spanish carta (letter) and Romanian carte (book). I know no example of a word in Romanian that exhibits this phenomenon, so I would rather delete the reference to Romanian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dumiac (talk • contribs) 22:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Occasional words in Romanian seem to exhibit the gorgia. For example, the word for "map" is hartă.

Izzo
Herbert J. Izzo, in "Tuscan and Etruscan", in 1972, comes to much the same conclusion as this article. The Dane Jespersen said the same earlier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.30.71.244 (talk) 14:37, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Florence example of a full phrase
The phrase "Una Coca Cola con la cannuccia corta corta" is a good example of gorgia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.147.146.185 (talk) 21:46, 29 August 2011 (UTC)