Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2
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@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller btw be proud: you've met the hottest summer of the history here!
Oh I know. It's been really tough as travelers, because we are just backpacking this time around. So we have been in Naples without any AC, for example. And are about to be staying in Paris without AC. And here in Tuscany the AC is just one room where we don't sleep (well, we are sleeping there now, I am sleeping on the dining room floor to stay cool!)
I think that this is ruining my nieces' impression of Europe. Things that should be fun and pleasant are horrible.
Well no AC is quite tough. I've AC in all of my bedrooms. Basically impossible to sleep without.
I'm sure you could get used to not having it. I mean, people have lived there thousands of years without it before and I'm sure they managed to sleep, lol. Still, like you, I'd rather stay used to the AC.
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@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Stromboli is American and i barely ever see it in the US and have never seen it outside of it. It is similar to a calzone.
Or Italian-American, or Italian immigrants.
We call those people Americans normally
I don't consider myself Swedish regardless of my citizenship.
What do you consider yourself, if neither Swedish nor American?
American because that's where I was born and raised, no matter where I would emigrate to.
So the same as the Americans who made Stromboli. Thats where they were birn and raised.
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@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller btw be proud: you've met the hottest summer of the history here!
Oh I know. It's been really tough as travelers, because we are just backpacking this time around. So we have been in Naples without any AC, for example. And are about to be staying in Paris without AC. And here in Tuscany the AC is just one room where we don't sleep (well, we are sleeping there now, I am sleeping on the dining room floor to stay cool!)
I think that this is ruining my nieces' impression of Europe. Things that should be fun and pleasant are horrible.
Well no AC is quite tough. I've AC in all of my bedrooms. Basically impossible to sleep without.
I'm sure you could get used to not having it. I mean, people have lived there thousands of years without it before and I'm sure they managed to sleep, lol. Still, like you, I'd rather stay used to the AC.
Could, maybe. But there wasnt this heat even 20 years ago in these places. So these people have not done it. And there wasnt such a densenpopulation using up the water and blocking the wind. So not really the same.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@matteo-nunziati said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller btw be proud: you've met the hottest summer of the history here!
Oh I know. It's been really tough as travelers, because we are just backpacking this time around. So we have been in Naples without any AC, for example. And are about to be staying in Paris without AC. And here in Tuscany the AC is just one room where we don't sleep (well, we are sleeping there now, I am sleeping on the dining room floor to stay cool!)
I think that this is ruining my nieces' impression of Europe. Things that should be fun and pleasant are horrible.
Well no AC is quite tough. I've AC in all of my bedrooms. Basically impossible to sleep without.
I'm sure you could get used to not having it. I mean, people have lived there thousands of years without it before and I'm sure they managed to sleep, lol. Still, like you, I'd rather stay used to the AC.
Could, maybe. But there wasnt this heat even 20 years ago in these places. So these people have not done it. And there wasnt such a densenpopulation using up the water and blocking the wind. So not really the same.
Yeah I remember my summers 20 years ago and it was way more pleasant. Nowdays this is more of an african summer rather than an italian one. And population growth doesn't help!
I clearly remember that max temps of 35C where seldom events. Usually you stayed around 30-32C max -
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Stromboli is American and i barely ever see it in the US and have never seen it outside of it. It is similar to a calzone.
Or Italian-American, or Italian immigrants.
We call those people Americans normally
I don't consider myself Swedish regardless of my citizenship.
What do you consider yourself, if neither Swedish nor American?
American because that's where I was born and raised, no matter where I would emigrate to.
So the same as the Americans who made Stromboli. Thats where they were birn and raised.
Oh they were? Who was it?
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@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Stromboli is American and i barely ever see it in the US and have never seen it outside of it. It is similar to a calzone.
Or Italian-American, or Italian immigrants.
We call those people Americans normally
I don't consider myself Swedish regardless of my citizenship.
What do you consider yourself, if neither Swedish nor American?
American because that's where I was born and raised, no matter where I would emigrate to.
So the same as the Americans who made Stromboli. Thats where they were birn and raised.
Oh they were? Who was it?
Stromboli, if you look it up, was invested in America. Not by Italians, but my Americans. Americans assumed to be of Italian decent, but that's the same as saying "American." Stomboli is simply an American food no matter how you slice or dice it. American invented, in America, by Americans. Other than the Americans being of Italian heritage, why are you assuming anything else? It's from Philadelphia. Not even an Italian region of the US.
It has no ties to Italy other than being an American modification of the calzone, which is Italian itself. But 99% of pizza in the US is influenced from pizza in the US at this point, not directly from pizza in Europe. We are many generations past that point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Stromboli is American and i barely ever see it in the US and have never seen it outside of it. It is similar to a calzone.
Or Italian-American, or Italian immigrants.
We call those people Americans normally
I don't consider myself Swedish regardless of my citizenship.
What do you consider yourself, if neither Swedish nor American?
American because that's where I was born and raised, no matter where I would emigrate to.
So the same as the Americans who made Stromboli. Thats where they were birn and raised.
Oh they were? Who was it?
Stromboli, if you look it up, was invested in America. Not by Italians, but my Americans. Americans assumed to be of Italian decent, but that's the same as saying "American." Stomboli is simply an American food no matter how you slice or dice it. American invented, in America, by Americans. Other than the Americans being of Italian heritage, why are you assuming anything else? It's from Philadelphia. Not even an Italian region of the US.
It has no ties to Italy other than being an American modification of the calzone, which is Italian itself. But 99% of pizza in the US is influenced from pizza in the US at this point, not directly from pizza in Europe. We are many generations past that point.
I get the point, but when I looked it up, it specifically said "Italian immigrant". That's what I based my point off of. If that's not the case, then I completely agree.
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@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Stromboli is American and i barely ever see it in the US and have never seen it outside of it. It is similar to a calzone.
Or Italian-American, or Italian immigrants.
We call those people Americans normally
I don't consider myself Swedish regardless of my citizenship.
What do you consider yourself, if neither Swedish nor American?
American because that's where I was born and raised, no matter where I would emigrate to.
So the same as the Americans who made Stromboli. Thats where they were birn and raised.
Oh they were? Who was it?
Stromboli, if you look it up, was invested in America. Not by Italians, but my Americans. Americans assumed to be of Italian decent, but that's the same as saying "American." Stomboli is simply an American food no matter how you slice or dice it. American invented, in America, by Americans. Other than the Americans being of Italian heritage, why are you assuming anything else? It's from Philadelphia. Not even an Italian region of the US.
It has no ties to Italy other than being an American modification of the calzone, which is Italian itself. But 99% of pizza in the US is influenced from pizza in the US at this point, not directly from pizza in Europe. We are many generations past that point.
I get the point, but when I looked it up, it specifically said "Italian immigrant". That's what I based my point off of. If that's not the case, then I completely agree.
Italian immigrant is used to refer to people for many generations. My wife and kids are considered Italian immigrants in many cases, but have been here for several generations. But in their case, are also still legally Italians, so that muddies the point.
Basically everyone in the US is considered an immigrant (obviously, there are exceptions.) It's how many generations of immigrant are you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations
Immigrant doesn't imply that they started in a different country. Only that they have an identifiable background from another country. My family still heavily identifies on the Swiss side as immigrants, but are on ten generations. But since we are still almost pure Swiss and can identify the ship we immigrated on and the immigration paperwork, we aren't natives in any way. My wife has copies of the immigration paperwork from her family, for example, as well.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
talian immigrant is used to refer to people for many generations. My wife and kids are considered Italian immigrants in many cases, but have been here for several generations. But in their case, are also still legally Italians, so that muddies the point.
I'm just going by the normal meaning man... no need to read in to it and make up context.
If someone says to me: "That guy over there is an Italian immigrant", I'm going to base my understanding of that off of the regular normal meaning and definition that he is from Italy and not born in the US. I will have no reason to believe he was born here and that his family has been here for x generations.
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@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
I'm just going by the normal meaning man... no need to read in to it and make up context.
If someone says to me: "That guy over there is an Italian immigrant", I'm going to base my understanding of that off of the regular normal meaning and definition that he is from Italy and not born in the US. I will have no reason to believe he was born here and that his family has been here for x generations.That's not what a LOT of people mean. Mirriam Webster even has that a first generation immigrant doesn't imply that someone is born outside of the US. And normal people use immigrant NORMALLY to mean children of immigrants. All the time.
If someone in the US told you someone was an Italian immigrant, it would be reckless to assume that they meant that they were born in Italy. The average person that would be called that, would have been born in the US.
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@Obsolesce the way you are defining the word is how it is used in most countries. Once people are settled in a place for more than a generation, they stop calling them immigrants. But in the US, that's not the most common usage.
And in an article like the wikipedia one, since they don't know the actual person who made the stromboli but only that they were part of a community likely descended from Italy, we know that they have to be using it in the US "anyone whose heritage came from" sense and can't possibly use it in the "was the person themselves who moved over" sense by context. You can only know the later, if you know the person specifically. When used in the way that they used it, it always means the larger grouping.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Mirriam Webster even has that a first generation immigrant doesn't imply that someone is born outside of the US.
WTF are you talking about?
(Miriram Webster):
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@Obsolesce sorry, the reference was OED, ... (supposedly, the OED is paid and this is quoted by WIkipedia)
"designating a member of the first (or second, etc.) generation of a family to do something or live somewhere; spec. designating a naturalized immigrant or a descendant of immigrant parents, esp. in the United States"
Wikipedia: "There is no universal consensus on which of these meanings is always intended."
So Wikipedia documents itself in this case.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce sorry, the reference was OED, ... (supposedly, the OED is paid and this is quoted by WIkipedia)
"designating a member of the first (or second, etc.) generation of a family to do something or live somewhere; spec. designating a naturalized immigrant or a descendant of immigrant parents, esp. in the United States"
Wikipedia: "There is no universal consensus on which of these meanings is always intended."
So Wikipedia documents itself in this case.
Oh I see, that makes sense.
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Here we go, part of the reference is here, which is linked by DuoLingo to Oxford that redirects to Lexico, and doesn't contain the part of hte quote that I want, but does show the conflict, lol...
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Heading up to Montecatini Alto for some dinner.
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@Obsolesce also to complicate matters WAY further....
If an American is born abroad, and brought back to the US, they are NOT considered immigrants. But if they stayed where they were born, they would be considered immigrants. Even though they were born there, often.
Italians stay Italians forever, in many cases. With Italy recognizing citizenship indefinitely. So for example, my wife is the daughter of an Italian citizen. So in some contexts, she herself is an immigrant, even having been born in the US. No one uses it that way, but Italians specifically have this complexity that most countries do not.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
@Obsolesce also to complicate matters WAY further....
If an American is born abroad, and brought back to the US, they are NOT considered immigrants. But if they stayed where they were born, they would be considered immigrants. Even though they were born there, often.
Italians stay Italians forever, in many cases. With Italy recognizing citizenship indefinitely. So for example, my wife is the daughter of an Italian citizen. So in some contexts, she herself is an immigrant, even having been born in the US. No one uses it that way, but Italians specifically have this complexity that most countries do not.
That's because there is a difference between being "born abroad", as in on vacation or on a short residency, and simply born in a different country than your parents because they had emigrated.
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@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:
Heading up to Montecatini Alto for some dinner.
That's a nice place!
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