Easy Romance

[Peyrol]

Let's analyze the word for ''shit'':

Classical latin: Æscrementus
Vulgar latin: merda

Italian: merda
Portuguese: merda
Castillian: mierda
Catalan: merda
Occitan: merdo
French: merde
Piemonteis: merde
Lombard: rüth (....wtf...????)
Sicilian: merda

[Comte Arnau]

^ Lol. Yeah, Lombard, wtf? I'd say the Lega has something to do with it, to separate it from the other Romance sisters.

I find it impressive that so many slang words are common to most Romance languages. It means that we haven't changed our vulgar vocabulary for centuries, even if there might be some variations in the meanings or the frequency. Merda, Culus, Futuere, Connus, Tetta, Fica, Puta, Coleone...

[Peyrol]

^ Lol. Yeah, Lombard, wtf? I'd say the Lega has something to do with it, to separate it from the other Romance sisters.

I find it impressive that so many slang words are common to most Romance languages. It means that we haven't changed our vulgar vocabulary for centuries, even if there might be some variations in the meanings or the frequency. Merda, Culus, Futuere, Connus, Tetta, Fica, Puta, Coleone...

Yeah old generation (east) lombards used this word a lot...i think it's somewhere related with the protogermanic ''*Roth'' (decomposition)...nowadyas vast mahority of orobich lombards use the panitalic ''merda''...so, if my grandmother still say '' Tö se ü muntù ed rüth'' as insult, my 18 years old cousin would say ''Tö se ü mont ed merda''.
But in some valleys is still used, and in hear more often this term in recent years.

''Connus'' totally disappeared in standard italian (tuscan), i never understood why; But the same word is still used in sardinian, and with some variants in southern languages/dialects.

[Comte Arnau]

''Connus'' totally disappeared in standard italian (tuscan), i never understood why;

I thought so, as I had never ever heard it used. I find conno in dictionaries but with the letterario mark. (Funny that a word so vulgar here can be considered 'literary' there )

[Peyrol]

I thought so, as I had never ever heard it used. I find conno in dictionaries but with the letterario mark. (Funny that a word so vulgar here can be considered 'literary' there )

It isn't the first time this happen

[Peyrol]

...about the occitan use od ''merdo'' this reggae provençal song is a good example.

...at one point i hear ''manjar merdo''....

[Peyrol]

''to worry about''

LATIN: præocupo

CASTILLIAN: preocuparse
CATALAN: preocupar
PORTUGUES:preocupar-se
ITALIAN: preoccuparsi/preoccupare
FRENCH: s'inquiéter/préoccuper
ROMANIAN: îngrijorare (???)
PIEMONTEIS: s'agrìnt ( WTF...???)
LOMBARD: preocupët
NEAPOLITAN: preoccupà/‘ngarrecà

[Comte Arnau]

''to worry about''

LATIN: præocupo

CASTILLIAN: preocuparse
CATALAN: preocupar
PORTUGUES:preocupar-se
ITALIAN: preoccuparsi/preoccupare

Catalan could also be preocupar-se if it means 'to care about' but we have to write a hyphen whenever we use a pronoun after the verb. For instance, "we don't want to care about it" in Catalan would either be No ens en volem preocupar or No volem preocupar-nos-en, with hyphens if we choose to put the pronouns behind. These many combinations are something students consider a real pain in the ass.


Let me deal now with some clothes

[kkk77]

How much can you understand of this?
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It's a Germanized language from Switzerland called "Romansch".

It sounds a very neutral accent to my ears. With a bit of german and italian.

I was not paying attention to the video but then at 0:54 I almost understood what she said "Il motiv is jogadores de la atatugfvavfa".
After a while I started understanding some words. At 1:44 It sounds portuguese with an italian accent "impressionante, como por exemplo a vitória contra a esquadra nacional dos estados unidos ... em mil novecentos e cinquenta e sete" awesome

Italian is said to be the easiest Romance language to learn, because they have the easiest phonetics and their speakers articulate the best.

I find spanish easier. It only has 5 vowels.

[Rudel]

...about the occitan use od ''merdo'' this reggae provençal song is a good example.

...at one point i hear ''manjar merdo''....

Mange-merde is common in French as well. It means "someone so vile he would resort to eat shit".

Technically, it's a petite-culotte. Culotte originally means something like pantaloons, although this use is only restricted to expressions and local speak these days.