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It is hard to explain how it sounds, you can still understand everything even if you never heard it before but the talker sounds ridiculous... That's the video

It is hard to explain how it sounds, you can still understand everything even if you never heard it before but the talker sounds ridiculous... That's the video that popularized "cursive speech": https://youtu.be/blLJ5UIu3r8 https://youtu.be/blLJ5UIu3r8 For example: "buongiorno amico, come stai?" would be something like "buoongioOrniio aamiIicooi, comiee staAiee?" It is basically adding random vowels around, stretching them and using a childish voice.

wildrhythms 4y ago
As an American I think we would refer to this as 'sing-song voice'.
- Tijdreiziger 4y ago
  Ha, that reminds me of my Swedish teacher, who loved to remark 'Swedish is a sing-song language!' whenever someone spoke too stodgily. Of course, she wasn't wrong!
- contextfree 4y ago
  it makes me think a bit of Arabic and Indian singing performance styles (as an American who doesn't really know anything about either the Italian language or Arabic or Indian music.)
prox 4y ago
Haha, not Italian but I have a basic understanding (buying stuff and simple interactions) but I can hear the difference, it does sound very weird! At least it’s not as fast as some Italian I’ve heard, the amount of times I had to ask a native speaker to slow down is high indeed.
- 01acheru 4y ago
  I guess it sounds even weirder to us native speakers since we are much more used to hearing normal Italian. I think it is easier for you because all that stretching gives you the time to focus more on the single words, also Italian speech is different from province to province. Sometimes it is also hard for us to understand other Italians, mostly because each region's native speakers mix some dialectal sayings and pronunciation into their version of Italian. We have tens of Italian languages in Italy, but the more you live here the more you understand other Italians beside your own (closer regions sound more similar but going from extreme north to extreme south it gets really different).
  - prox 4y ago
    Is the a general “news anchor” general dialect that anyone can understand? Like on Rai Uno for example?
    - 01acheru 4y ago
      The general dialect is simply a correct form of Italian, following all the rules and without adding anything from your dialect. It is the Italian language you learn at school.
gpderetta 4y ago
Good $DEITY. Ridiculous is an understatement...
chadlavi 4y ago
Wow that is terrible. I believe this is what they call vocal fry.
mmierz 4y ago
To my non Italian-speaking ears, it sounds like the speaker is using an anime/tiktok inspired “uwu voice”
stjohnswarts 4y ago
Is it anything like vocal fry in English?
- 01acheru 4y ago
  I don't think so, it sounds quite the opposite. Vocal fry is low register, sounds educated and is somewhat sexier while "cursive speech" is squeaky, childish and sounds really stupid.

wildrhythms 4y ago

As an American I think we would refer to this as 'sing-song voice'.

Tijdreiziger 4y ago
Ha, that reminds me of my Swedish teacher, who loved to remark 'Swedish is a sing-song language!' whenever someone spoke too stodgily. Of course, she wasn't wrong!
contextfree 4y ago
it makes me think a bit of Arabic and Indian singing performance styles (as an American who doesn't really know anything about either the Italian language or Arabic or Indian music.)

prox 4y ago

Haha, not Italian but I have a basic understanding (buying stuff and simple interactions) but I can hear the difference, it does sound very weird! At least it’s not as fast as some Italian I’ve heard, the amount of times I had to ask a native speaker to slow down is high indeed.

01acheru 4y ago
I guess it sounds even weirder to us native speakers since we are much more used to hearing normal Italian. I think it is easier for you because all that stretching gives you the time to focus more on the single words, also Italian speech is different from province to province. Sometimes it is also hard for us to understand other Italians, mostly because each region's native speakers mix some dialectal sayings and pronunciation into their version of Italian. We have tens of Italian languages in Italy, but the more you live here the more you understand other Italians beside your own (closer regions sound more similar but going from extreme north to extreme south it gets really different).
- prox 4y ago
  Is the a general “news anchor” general dialect that anyone can understand? Like on Rai Uno for example?
  - 01acheru 4y ago
    The general dialect is simply a correct form of Italian, following all the rules and without adding anything from your dialect. It is the Italian language you learn at school.

gpderetta 4y ago

Good $DEITY. Ridiculous is an understatement...

chadlavi 4y ago

Wow that is terrible. I believe this is what they call vocal fry.

mmierz 4y ago

To my non Italian-speaking ears, it sounds like the speaker is using an anime/tiktok inspired “uwu voice”

stjohnswarts 4y ago

Is it anything like vocal fry in English?

01acheru 4y ago
I don't think so, it sounds quite the opposite. Vocal fry is low register, sounds educated and is somewhat sexier while "cursive speech" is squeaky, childish and sounds really stupid.