Italian Language Myths

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There are many myths that are true and others false. Some language myths that you might have heard of are Italian is Beautiful, German is Ugly or Black Children are Verbally Deprived. In Italian is Beautiful, German is Ugly, the author explains to us that a language’s accent becomes more attractive either depending on the person who is talking. This demonstrates that a member of the opposite sex or who does the judging shows us that the values of this myth. As stated in the reading, “research thus shows that sounds are in the ear of the beholder, to be variably interpreted and socially constructed, rather than out there as some fact to be objectively measured.” This means that the sound of the language can be interpret in many ways weather

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