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“Until the Second World War, Italians didn’t speak Italian. “When Lady Gaga speaks, she doesn’t lose that quality,” De Fina explains, “so that’s one thing that I think makes it sound strange to us.”Īnd then another complicating factor: A true Italian accent does not exist - not in a singular sense, anyway. Italian also makes fewer distinctions in the sounds vowels make: “ship” may sound like “sheep,” “cat” may sound like “cot,” “ankle” may sound like “uncle.” English, by contrast, is a stress-timed language, as is Russian: stressed syllables come at regular intervals, punctuated by shorter, unstressed syllables. “So that’s why you have a sense of Italian being kind of melodic, kind of sing-songy.”
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“Italian is a language where every syllable, more or less, has the same duration,” she explains. Originally from Sicily, De Fina specializes in sociolinguistics.
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And the general reaction was the same I had, which is, This is not an authentic Italian accent,” Anna De Fina, professor and chair of the Georgetown University Italian department, tells the Cut. “I sent the trailers to my colleagues in the Italian department, who are all - except for one - Italian. What was this accent doing? What were any of these accents doing? A gorgeous and mystifying hybrid, but Italian, would we say?Īccording to two linguists who also happen to be Italian, and who agreed to help me with the weighty task of reviewing these accents, we would not. Straight out of the gate, Gaga’s voice galloped to the lead, raspy and murdery and also sort of Slavic? Arresting and confounding too. Watching the first trailer, I knew roughly what to expect visually (Leto in a bald cap), but aurally? That there might be attempts by every actor with a speaking role to replicate the hilly cadence of Italian-inflected English? It was a possibility for which I failed to prepare. Phil? Incredible hype-building material, and yet even these images left me largely unprepared for the clips to come.
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Here’s Lady Gaga in her Patrizia Reggiani wig (?), cramming a hot pizza ripieno into the mouth of her doomed husband, Adam Driver there’s our big boy again, bundled into a sweater the size of the Alps behind him is that Jared Leto walking around looking like a funky Dr. Approximately eight months ago, the paparazzi surprised us with a gift that keeps on giving: a first look at House of Gucci, Ridley Scott’s retelling of the assassination of Maurizio Gucci (organized by his ex-wife), through photos they snapped from the sets in Italy.