• @[email protected]
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          02 months ago

          So you know that this is a stereotype hopefully, and that people don’t actually talk like super mario, right?

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            Super Mario is a video game, but just go to an Italian restaurant or pub and you’ll hear some pretty familiar language.

            • RVGamer06
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              32 months ago

              Especially if you go somewhere near Naples(the stereotypical Italian speech comes from Neapolitan, essentially)

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                42 months ago

                I think it simply comes from the bad english of italian people who immigrated to the US. Plenty of them were from South, but the stereotypical speech is simply a consequence of Italians pronouncing words as they are written (given Italian works like that). Neapolitan dialect is actually very contracted, so the opposite of elongated vocals as the stereotype goes.