Something that really grinds my gears...

is when Italians (from Italy) get online and are upset/bewildered by the way Italians in Jersey/New York speak. Or really anyone for that matter. I've heard non-Italians have a lot to say about how people from Jersey and New York say Italian words.

My mom's parents were from southern Italy. And my grandparents on my Dad's side were southern-central. When I was a kid my mom explained to me that Italians in Italy were very shitty to people who had southern accents. My grandmother grew up speaking a form of Italian that sounds nothing like Florentine Italian. In fact, my mom taught me some phrases that I literally can't translate into Italian because I don't know the direct or literal wording for it. Calabrese is mixed with Greek. It's common for Italians using southern dialects to drop the vowels on the ends of words. My grandmother didn't teach my mother Italian because they faced discrimination for it and didn't want their children to face it in the US. So, my mom wasn't taught Italian and neither were her brothers. She used to throw her hands up and say something that sounded like "nonsatch" to me. And it meant "I don't know". I realized it is "non lo so" but the southern way of saying it, specifically in Calabria. Apparently it's actually "nnò sacc" which is VALID. But if you say that to someone who speaks Florentine Italian they're going to be confused.

A lot of immigrants in New York and New Jersey are from southern Italy, people escaping economic hardship. Mussolini tried to outlaw use of dialects in public spaces because he wanted uniformity of Italians.

So, just remember when you're making fun of people who speak with a dialect or use what is considered slang, you're siding with a fascist. Dialects are valid and just like southerners from the US sound different from Northerners, the same holds true in countries like Italy!

Hope this helps!

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I would counter this by saying it got me everywhere, personally. All you have to do is spend some time in comment sections and realize that people a) can't parse through information for what is factual and what is not and b) can't read for context. People will literally pull wild ideas/theories from a piece of media. They will also refute easily Google-able facts. The comprehension of most of the people I come across is wildly terrible, I mean, abhorrent. I also think this could have been prevented if people just read more as children.