http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/ Corsica Lista Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:29:30 GMT lancmanina http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1161 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1161 Jackie, Mac, So grateful for the information. Thanks a million. Ina Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:03:22 GMT Jacqueline Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1160 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1160 Hi, I found this bus information on the web. I hope it will be useful to you. It looks like you can take a no. 98 bus. Jackie To: corsicalista@yahoogroups.com Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:43:40 GMT maccorsica http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1159 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1159 Ina, You could get a taxi from the airport, but it's a fair way and will prove expensive. I usually get a No 99 bus from outside the terminal (it stops Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:14:06 GMT lancmanina http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1158 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1158 Hello All, How do I get from Nice Airport to Corsica Ferry, reliably and inexpensively? And most importantly: How long does it take? (I'll not be renting a Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:07:55 GMT Mirko Viviani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1157 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1157 ... Probably it goes in pair with this: how can Tuscany be considered an Italian dialect if it had originated the language? ... Frequently, I think newspapers Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:07:49 GMT William Keyser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1156 I can't resist carrying on the linguistic discussion, briefly - sorry Mac (and I will write separately about finding an author). For people who visit Corsica Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:07:32 GMT Mirko Viviani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1155 ... It seems to me that your friends are not italians, am I right? I have some children books translated by Francescu Maria Perfettini and I can told you as Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:57:58 GMT John E. Richardson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1154 hi Mac, you could always ask Alexandra Jaffe: http://www.csulb.edu/depts/ling/f_jaffe.php she is about as authoritative as they come on this subject. all the Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:13:06 GMT William Edgar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1153 To: John From: Awilda (Villarini) I appreciate your information about the Corsican language predating Italian. I have heard Catalan spoken in Spain Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:11:49 GMT aliandian@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1152 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1152 Just to add my two hap’orth on a subject which never ceases to fascinate...  I absolutely concur that Corsican is a language - this is a political, not a Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:54:28 GMT Mac McKeone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1151 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1151 Greetings, everybody. This thread could run and run... The language versus dialect issue is a touchy one and is clearly bound up with the island's worthy Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:25:17 GMT John E. Richardson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1150 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1150 hi all, well, I didn't describe Corsican as a dialect (in fact I called it a language 3 times in my short email), so perhaps this comment from Will was Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:38:11 GMT Mirko Viviani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1149 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1149 Corsican is not a dialect but is quite like a mix, merge and variations of some italian dialects. An italian should mostly understand it, as Corsicans mostly Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:37:36 GMT Mimi Forsyth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1148 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1148 Thank you, Will. Your remarks go with the "live IN Corsica vs. live ON Corsica" discussion. Maybe some of the confusion about Corsican LANGUAGE stems from it Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:07:34 GMT William Keyser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1147 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corsicalista/message/1147 Hello John I guess visitors will tend not to hear the Corsican language (it is not a dialect, by the way). But if you are interested there are plenty of