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The difference of Dialects [here in Italy] is mighty disstracting. a Child is call'd Bambino at Florence, Putto at Venice, Creatura at Rome, Schietto at Brescia, Bergamo &c. and a Girl at Milan is Tosa. what can one say in such Cases?
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even Clergymen now puclickly confess Incredulity, and Mr Chappelow said in my hearing three Days ago, that Adam & Eve and the Apple was an old Woman's Story—that he believed the World was five Hundred thousand years old at least, with many other equally impious Positions.
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Nature does get strangely out of Fashion sure enough…The Queen of France is at the Head of a Set of Monsters call'd by each other Sapphists, who boast her Example; and deserve to be thrown with the He Demons that haunt each other likewise, into Mount Vesuvius. {April 1789]
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I knew Italian was largely 'invented' I think by Manzoni in the first half of the XIXth century, but I had not realised the scope of the regional differences! Not even a common root!
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Well yes I suppose "Italian" is basically Tuscan. The other regional languages are still pretty active, so I guess they must have been even more so in those days. She gives another example, of a ‘fan’ – which ‘is called Ventaglio in Tuscany, Ventola at Venice, Crespino at Milan, and Muscalora at Naples’! I'd love to know if any of these are still current, apart from ventaglio, which is the standard word for it I think.
You'd think that Napolitan was influenced by Spanish and Venice by German or Slavic languages, but that does not seem the case! I wonder if this is the fruit of late unification, or perhaps of 'campanilismo'.I live in Saxony, and however ununderstable Sachsich remains to me, it is largely a matter of pronounciation rather than word construction. But Germany was so fragmented that its dialect perhaps never achieved the kind of institutionalisation which the Italian dialect must have known, perhaps encouraged by the occupying powers.
She actually writes about this a little, too – she says that many words in Milanese are just Spanish, ‘retained since the Time they were under Spanish Government’. She gives as examples gaban for a riding-coat, moço ‘young man’, buscar ‘ to seek’, ‘& 100 more’.As for German dialects, don't get me started! I live in Swizterland for god's sake.
