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I sometimes wonder what percentage of people can't speak the same language their grandparents spoke. With China and India it must be hundreds of millions.
by LAC-Tech 5y ago
I sometimes wonder what percentage of people can't speak the same language their grandparents spoke.
With China and India it must be hundreds of millions.
- don-code 5y agoMy grandmother speaks fluent English, but also fluent Italian. Problem is, it's what I'll call "pre-radio Italian" - where there was no single Italian language, but rather a great many dialects that sort-of sounded the same, until radio and (later) television came and unified them all into one language. I bring this up because she often references words that only loosely resemble the modern forms. A good example is a number of her childhood figures who she affectionately calls "azi" - this is actually a version of the modern Italian "zio" (uncle). It gets much worse with foods, which really no amount of Googling can ever resolve a recipe, or even a description.
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