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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 9 points 6 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 9 points 6 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.