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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Italians are sterotypically thought of as having a lot of hand gestures, and the study seems to confirm it. Are Swedes also typically more likely to use hand gestures to others? The article says the Italians seem to have about twice as frequent hand gestures.

Just a general question I have to how influenced Swedish culture is by Italian. I think that it was quite common with Italian immigrants in Sweden after ww2, and it seems like Swedish has some words directly borrowed from Italian: fattura/faktura, provare/prova. Maybe also hand gestures are influenced?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 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.