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Italian didn't get around the world very much.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-09-19 08:24:22 in Meatspace
[tɕagɛn]
God dammit Why did the two boring/ugly-looking Romance languages (Spanish and French) beat it in utterly getting around the world

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  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Because when it was a successful empire, Italy spoke Latin.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    That's probably why Italian is so much better. It's directly linked to Latin. Unlike Spanish, for example, which was the result of the Paleohispanic and Latin mixing together.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    ^^ Apparently Greek was the "common language" of Ancient Rome; Latin was spoken by the higher-ups an academics.
  • vandrovandro
    edited 2011-09-19 08:29:25
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    I can't say I am sad about that, most international italian singers sing in spanish for that very reason. Hahahahahahahaha.

    Spanish was also lexically affected by the Moors.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-09-19 08:30:19
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^^Huh. That's quite interesting.

    ^^^Don't see how that automatically makes it better.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "^^^Don't see how that automatically makes it better."

    Italian is "purer" than Spanish.

    Much as German is purer than English.
  • vandrovandro
    edited 2011-09-19 08:33:29
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    It isn't directly linked to latin, there were other local languages and dialects that mixed with latin to produce italian, and furthermore, widespread italian is one's region italian. Not unlike castillian dominating the other languages of the iberian peninsula.

    There I have to disagree: Italian is not better than spanish by virtue of pureness. It is better by virtue of having less consonants.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Why does pure = good?
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    GIRUGAMESHU is pure, and he is of chaotic good.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    For: It's a weird obsession of mine. I just think Italian sounds better due to being more derived from Latin than French (Derived from Gaulish) or Spanish (Derived from the Paleohispanic languages).
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Of all the romance languages, the one that's the most similar to latin depends of what you want to mean: Italian is more similar to latin in a syntactic way. But spanish conserved more consonants, French is the only one with only one copulative verb, English is the language that conserves most of the word morphology of latin, and it isn't even a romance language. And also, every romance language this side of the tiber lost H's sound.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Why did the two boring/ugly-looking Romance languages (Spanish and French) beat it in utterly getting around the world

    > Boring
    > Uglylooking

    La palabra "Pendejo" existe. Tu argumento es invalido.
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Also, the most similar to latin seems to be sardinian, at least that's what wikipedia says.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Every language is better than English, except Chinese. Both of those are equally bullshit. Seriously, English, what the hell.
  • AHRAHR
    IJBM: That the romance languages are so common.

    I don't want to learn spanish, french, italian or german. I want to learn Turkish, or latin, DAMMIT!
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    > Romance languages are too common.
    > German.
    > I want to learn Latin.

    Huh.
  • AHRAHR
    DETAILS.
  • vandrovandro
    edited 2011-09-19 09:28:05
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Detalles que me hieren, como una filosa espada desenvainada
    Detalles que me matan, como una triste traición
    Detalles que me insultan, como una mentira naturalizada
    Detalles que me acaban, como una impossible reacción.
  • AHRAHR
    In all seriousness, I fucked up in using that term.

    I should have said "generic four languages that show up in high school."
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    The only language that shows up in elementary and high school for most people here is english. So you got off lightly.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Latin isn't Romance, I'm pretty sure it's Italic....

    Actually, I think it's both.
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