Which plaintext languages to try?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I'm sorry (and I'm also sorry for being off-topic), but you are very wrong on this. Italian languages are true, bona-fide languages. From You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. [...] They are true languages, not mutually intelligible at all neither with standard Italian nor among them. [...] just wanted to make clear that it's not true, at all, that geminated consonants are important for all Romance languages: they actually have zero importance in some.

I can  confirm that. My native language is Venetian, and I learned Italian at ~8 to read children magazines.  I cannot understand a word of Genoese or Sardinian, nor maybe 50-70% of Lombard.  Ditto for Neapolitan, even though I have translated a couple dozen Neapolitan songs with the help of dictionaries... 

And indeed Venetian does not have the geminated consonants of Italian, not at all: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.