Where do people live from tKR?

What continent do you live on In Real Life?

  • Total voters
    48
Status
Not open for further replies.
Neat, I seem to hear something about a kind of North/South cultural distinction in Italy. Is that a thing or do people not see themselves as from the South or North?

 
Kayser said:
North/South cultural distinction in Italy
Click to expand...
There's cultural distinction from town to town :D

This is the map of dialects, just to give you an idea, and it's not even complete because some parts have not been cataloged (I think because they are influenced by foreign languages and therefore not pure Italian dialects) while larger areas that are marked with a single dialect have different subgroups that have not been marked.

dialetti-italiani.png


 
Thats pretty cool, so from one town to another there is a kind of accent that region has that kinda sets them apart from another? Would a good comparison be English and Cajun? (American brain needs things in terms of American stuff)

 
It's not the accent (well yes, even that) but the words, you can move for 30 km and the words change, you still understand the speech but some things are called in a totally different way, 100 km and you speak a totally different language.

Obviously now everyone speaks Italian but 150 years ago it was different, the Italian was the official language to communicate with foreigners but the dialect was spoken in the life of every day, it's like the African colonies who have English, French, etc. as the official language but between them they speak African languages.

Italy never was unite after the Roman Empire, the unification was 150 years ago so you have 1500 years of small nations and city states, obviously in 150 years don't erease the cultural differences that were formed in 1500 years, this is both positive and negative, negative because we struggled to find a national identity and the differences are still there positive because competition among nations brought to develop the art, literature, cuisine, architecture, science, etc.

 
Micchan said:
It's not the accent (well yes, even that) but the words, you can move for 30 km and the words change, you still understand the speech but some things are called in a totally different way, 100 km and you speak a totally different language.

Obviously now everyone speaks Italian but 150 years ago it was different, the Italian was the official language to communicate with foreigners but the dialect was spoken in the life of every day, it's like the African colonies who have English, French, etc. as the official language but between them they speak African languages.

Italy never was unite after the Roman Empire, the unification was 150 years ago so you have 1500 years of small nations and city states, obviously in 150 years don't erease the cultural differences that were formed in 1500 years, this is both positive and negative, negative because we struggled to find a national identity and the differences are still there positive because competition among nations brought to develop the art, literature, cuisine, architecture, science, etc.
Click to expand...


I think I understand it a bit more now, thanks for the explanation. I hope its not something you have to do too regularly when talking to Americans :P  (or if you like to explain it, I hope you have to do it for everyone). 

Sargun said:
Fun fact, a lot of people in southern italy fly confederate flags.
Click to expand...


1306792854551-49049019.jpeg


 
I never would have figured the majority of the membership to be in the US.  I always assumed Europe.  

 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top