If words were edible, Proven?al speech would be a rich, thick, pungent verbal stew, simmered in an accent filled with twanging consonants;a civet, perhaps, or maybe a daube.

• 如果把它比喻为可食的东西，那普罗旺斯法语讲出来就像浓重而深沉炖菜，夹杂着浓重的鼻音在口腔里慢炖的感觉，麝猫香亦或是炖牛肉；