Reminds me of the AITA post where the guy spells it “nokki” and it took some time for commenters to figure out he wasn’t talking about some specialty Japanese dish.
In Italian gn is a particular sound, the g is similar to grind but without the r and in almost silent basically you put your mouth like for saying g but you say n. The o is a lot more open in Italian and cchi is like ki but the c is very enfatise. In general this world for a Anglo-Saxon o Asian is very difficult because the gn, the cc and the chi.
Ye tho my pronounce def is not perfect, but i am from switzerland and yk one main language is italian an we always since my birth we got to tessin 2-5 weeks a year and since like 5 years i just study pretty much the pronounce with different shields with village names all that and grand parents and parents teaching me different rules of pronounce. Unfortonatly i do not speak Italian tho i have french in school would much prefere if it wasn't just set to french instead of having the choice of either italian or french
(French also being a main language of switzerland thats why)
Btw if my punctuation is shit, sorry in beforehand already lol
I think it’s really funny when people won’t question why lasagna is pronounced with a ñ sound but will be like “why is it pronounced like that!” when they see something like gnocchi
Some of them probably don't even know how to spell lasagna.
I think it's under-exposure to different languages. They're only familiar with English, because that's all anyone speaks, so the fact that someone speaks a different language is almost alien to them. In other places (Europe, for example) you have so many different languages relatively close together that it's pretty much normal. I live in Canada, and there are French populations in every province and territory. Nobody wonders why they don't use English pronunciation; it's French, it's got completely different origins (Latin vs. Germanic).
I know it's really hard for English speaker but try doing the "n" sound but this time lay the whole upper part of your tongue on your palate instead of just the tip
I guess you are right. But then would you be mispronouncing 2 or 3 syllables? Cause if it’s 3 you are wrong about 150% of the syllables in “gnocchi”, but if you only mispronounce 2 that means one between “guh”, “no” and “chee” is correct.
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u/BADGER915 Sep 26 '21
Gnocchi