Nah my mom just kind of sent me, 'cause she wanted me to go to med school there. There are a lot of cheap little schools and it's way more effective than those bullshit study abroad programs. I actually had the reverse and forgot all Spanish when I started on Italian. They're too close.

I work in a "cool" office and they would just be like, "what. no. health code."

People are just mindblowing daft. Like, I switch letters a lot because I'm an anxious mushmouthed person, but I KNOW I fucked up! damn

No you use rum

Yeah, nah.

Yeah I see you. Incidentally my IPA is shit (crippling depression does not a good linguist make)

Nah I mean people who really get into it. Like trying to get an exact combo going. I'm always at Chipotle in areas with a lot of high rise office buildings so there'll be a line out the door and someone trying to give exact instructions for each ingredient on like 6 burrito bowls. STAHP.

I have a boil on my butt right now

i saw my parents' butts a lot. they don't like clothes.

I'm hoping that by the time I procreate, music players will be implanted in the skull.

Oooh I went to Italian school with a girl from Tyrol! She spoke German at home. My people are from Friuli so we speak Veneto and Furlan. We are the kings and queens of polenta. And the drunkest, most vulgar region. My cousins will talk about pussy in front of their nonna and she just laughs

I love you

I'm scared to Google that

Who hurt you?

Same. My mom's family is purebred Northern, in areas where Veneto and a local slavic/latinate language is spoken. I've been in a lot or arguments. It's fucking pasta fagioli! It's VA-FAN-CUL-O, not ffffangul! I love and respect dialects, but at least know you're speaking dialect and don't correct me!

I always explain it this way -

The florentine dialect is now actually quite phonetically different from standard Italian ;) I was told it was because they wanted to sound fancy and different.

Actually while I was over there, I think I only ever heard the word in that context.

They're trying to speak an antiquated version of some very variant Italian dialects. The cutting off the the ends of words and the addition of long -oo or -u is common in Southern dialects.

I am one of these people and my parents blame it on the Bush administration and Central VA.