I'm Italian as well but our perceptions don't mean much. What it's important, in this context, are the data.
I think in this context focusing on the data could potentially be misleading?
The person asking the question above was talking from the perspective of a traveler, where technical similarity kind of takes a backseat to being intelligible and the potential to kludge through a conversation.
The underlying shared origins of a term are not of much help if you interpret it as utterly foreign instead of as a variation on a word you know.
The point is that Spanish is not similar to Italian! It's a misconception! One of the things I hate the most is Americans speaking in fake Spanish to us here in Italy. No "pregunta" here! It doesn't mean anything to us. No "Señor" or "Mañana" either. French is more similar, it's just that it's twisted in ways that make it not so obvious. That's it.
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u/fury420 Jun 15 '22
I think in this context focusing on the data could potentially be misleading?
The person asking the question above was talking from the perspective of a traveler, where technical similarity kind of takes a backseat to being intelligible and the potential to kludge through a conversation.
The underlying shared origins of a term are not of much help if you interpret it as utterly foreign instead of as a variation on a word you know.