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Uploaded by on Sep 18, 2008

Maria Laurino discusses southern Italian dialect words which she deciphers in her book Were You Always an Italian? on a San Francisco television show.

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  • Aauhauhauahuhauahauhauh MAmmaluke it's awesome!! We (italian) use this word sooo much, but I think that how you pronounciate it it's funnier than ours!!!!!!! :)

  • How would you pronounce it?

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  • ...im italian but i dont know those words at all!!

    the fact is that there r just so many italian accents...

  • this is just the dialect of one region in south of italy... there are many others dialects!

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  • @WereYouAlways mammalucco it's the right pronounce...

  • @nypd67p That is how my grandmother always said it -- cappadost! I heard that one a lot when I was a kid!

  • @babyandmauryfan My family is from Abruzzo also -- I remember that word scushtumat!

  • greedy would be more cavone then anything.

  • @molotov86

    nel dialetto siciliano (e credo anche calabrese), il mammalucco è soprattutto quell'animale simile alla lumaca ma senza chiocciola, la parola si usa per indicare una persona incapace, priva di "spina dorsale"

  • @TheDarkever

    probabilmente la tua è la traduzione più corretta alle loro becere traslitterazioni, io non ci sarei arrivato.

  • I immediately noticed that STUNOD is DONUTS in reverse xD Maybe I'm that hungry.

  • proud to have italian ancestry

  • @WereYouAlways

    It sounds like:

    mammalukko

  • @stepunk91 shouln't be surprised, majority od italian americans are from southern italy.

    the same appens in brazil where Venetian is corrently spocken( check at Talian, in Santa Caterina)

    or Lunfardo in Buenos Aires,in which you find plenty of pedemontain, lombardian and emilian words all languages from Cisalpine language extremely similar to Occitan and French

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