people use an accent when pronouncing something ethnic. i mean come on she has a normal american accent but whenever she says anything with an italian name she lays on the accent super thick!!! it's annoying as hell, whose with me?
shareOMG-------spaGHE-ti. I fraking HATE when she does that! She is in America now, not Italy, she sooo don't speak a broken Guinea accent, so please Giada, STOP THAT! Takes some teachings from Alton or Paula on how to be the REAL you!!
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I enjoy it, myself. Don't see why anyone would be so put out about somebody's accent.
shareBut it's not her accent!! She only has the accent when she says anything Italian. I can't even watch her show anymore it drives me nuts!!
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I grew up in a multilingual household. When my mom spoke English, she spoke like an American, but when she spoke Italian, she spoke like an Italian. She wasn't trying to impress anyone, she was merely speaking correctly, whichever language she was speaking in.
I had a friend who was fluent in five languages, and everyone in her family spoke three languages. I was always fascinated when I was at her house, to listen to her and her family, moving with ease from one language to the next in the course of one conversation. Whichever language they were speaking, they automatically used the appropriate accent, because that's how they learned to say the words in that language. It was natural to them, and it's natural to Giada also. I'm sure she heard her mom and grandmother say "spaghetti" a ton of times before she ever heard the American pronunciation. Certainly, when she learned English, she wanted to speak like an American, but when she says something in Italian, the natural pronunciation/accent will appear automatically.
I guess if you're narrow-minded and looking for something to criticize, then it might bother you, but, if you enjoy other cultures, you'll enjoy her manner of speech.
We called rotini "springs." It didn't matter what the box said, that's what we called it. If Giada grew up calling it "fusilli," then she'd probably call it that no matter what it says on the box.
Sheesh, you're a nit-picky bunch!
ha. yeah. "and NOW for some freshly grated a-parmeh-JAAH-no". i'll be thinking "it's parmesean. you know this". the other day i watched her show and she had a friend come on who helped her with the dishes and she didn't do it. i saw her reach for that big wedge of parmesean cheese. i waited for it. it didn't come. she just said "parmesean". i was surprised. actually, i was a little let down...
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Giada's so full of crap with those fake accents it's laughable. I know many Italians who come from Italian-speaking families and they don't talk like that. It's all B.S. on Giada's part. I don't even watch her show anymore because I can't stand her fake accents, she's too over the top with the way she says "CRUNCHY" or "sshhuugar" or when she rolls her eyes up into her head when she eats something. For pete's sake lady, it's just food!!
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Gotta really be jealous for it to bother you so much.
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Sorry, but I just find it amusing that someone who, by their own admission, no longer even watches the show, feels compelled to come here and vent their ill feelings over such a silly thing as someone's accent. Seem pretty intolerant to me. If anyone needs to "move on," it's he/she, not I.
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"Still, this forum is for comments/feedback from all; not just Giada's fans."
Yet, you were quick to decide that I should be excluded, weren't you?
I humbly thank you for approving of my last post.
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Pappy Bootch,
Your disingenuous call for an end to an argument that had finished more than half a month before your mendacious "intervention" is ridiculous--especially since you went on to take sides and criticize me yourself.
I'm sorry that a woman who was born in Italy, loves her native tongue, and occasionally chooses to pronounce certain Italian words with an Italian pronunciation offends ignorant, bigoted, intolerant, provincial fools like you. If you want a perfect example of a post "making yourself look stupid and unoriginal," read your own.
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Why is it "gross" when a woman who was born in Italy chooses to pronounce Italian words as she originally learned to pronounce them? What's gross is the provincialism and intolerance which prompts such remarks.
shareI'm going to have to side with DrZaat on this one. I'm German and was born there and now live in America and have a good American accent. But when I say words like autobahn, bratwurst, sauerkraut, etc. I say them the way they were meant to be spoken. In German. Because they are German words. I can in a way see how someone who speaks just one language can find this annoying. Anyone who is bilingual however will understand that automatic reflex to say a work in their native tongue. How can you do otherwise? :)
Don't be ridiculous! Jack would never die without telling me!
My parents do that, especially my dad and he came to the states when he was 14. He speaks flawless American English but when he says certain words in his native language he pronounces them the way they were meant to be pronounced.
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Giada has been criticized on this point endlessly---but she just keeps on doing it.
Probably always will.
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