Lancia: saying it all wrong
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I bet that most of us say Larnsia. But it's actually Lanchya. So said my Italian friend, but he is not a car person. But the internet never lies, and here you go -
https://youtu.be/oq2TeRV5Zmc
https://youtu.be/oq2TeRV5Zmc
Monkeylegend said:
Stick with what you have historically called it, you will sound like an idiot otherwise 
Ermmm..., I have forgotten the Italian for "I am joking". This is just a light hearted Saturday thread. Italian double consonants.... Moto Guzzi. That's Gutzi. But Brit bikers all say Guhsi or Goozi.
Yup, he is from The Abruzzo, so a total pleb!
PS: Also a QC who is Mr Football Law, who has bought back his grandfather's old farmhouse and restored it, and grows vines and olives in the ancestral village, where he now spends his summer. Not bad for a lad from the mountains.
PS: Also a QC who is Mr Football Law, who has bought back his grandfather's old farmhouse and restored it, and grows vines and olives in the ancestral village, where he now spends his summer. Not bad for a lad from the mountains.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 11th July 17:52
Modern Italian is, I believe, basically a development of Renaissance Florentine, the language of Dante. Regional variations are considerable, and Sicilian, and a few other dialects, are pretty much distinct languages. See also Provencal and French, Catalan and Spanish, Scots and English (I said Scots, not Gaelic), high and low German, and so on.
All of the Romance languages are mostly Latin subjected to the effects of time and locality, of course, but they have diverged quite a lot over the last two millennia. English, a non Romance language, is whacky because it has chunks of Latin but is very Germanic, for obvious historical reasons. Polish is a whacky combo of Latin and Slavic, and so on. Languages are mega interesting.
All of the Romance languages are mostly Latin subjected to the effects of time and locality, of course, but they have diverged quite a lot over the last two millennia. English, a non Romance language, is whacky because it has chunks of Latin but is very Germanic, for obvious historical reasons. Polish is a whacky combo of Latin and Slavic, and so on. Languages are mega interesting.
k Wright off with your radio two steveisums. wibble cb said:
No mention of countach( said like moustache as far as I know) or Audi( North Americans insist it’s pronounced ordi, not owdi.....!
We did have Audi a bit further up, I think, but not Countach. Espada is easy to say, but I mention it because calling a car "Sword" is the same as calling a car "Schlong".
That is correct. Imagine the argument over the map amongst a bunch of migrant nomads coming from the east at some time in late Antiquity. "No, no, we turn right". "No, No, we turn left". One lot go right and become the Suomi (Finns). The other lot turn left and become the Magyar (Hungarians). Thus Finnish is not a Germanic/Scandinavian language like Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish; and whereas Polish, Czech, and other languages of that region are similar to one another, Hungarian is quite distinct.
The loneliest language is, IIRC, Greek, which is out on a limb on its own.
The loneliest language is, IIRC, Greek, which is out on a limb on its own.
But Welsh does at least have its relatives in Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, and Brittany. I gather that Greek does not have much of a family, although of course Latin and post-Latin languages including English use Greek loan words.
This takes us neatly back to Lancias, with their Greek Alphabetti Spaghetti model designations (along with posh Roman lady names for cars).
This takes us neatly back to Lancias, with their Greek Alphabetti Spaghetti model designations (along with posh Roman lady names for cars).
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