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Italians' and Swedes' gestures vary when they tell stories, which may show cultures think differently about narratives (phys.org)

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[–] RustnRuin@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk about that. Probably these so called borrowed words from Italian, are actually of Latin origin, like so many words in so many European languages.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

I don't speak Swedish, but ⟨faktura⟩ is clearly from Latin, not from Italian. Italian shifted Latin ⟨ct⟩ /kt/ clusters into ⟨tt⟩ /t:/, and the Swedish borrowing preserves it.