#i can't point to an exact english vernacular equivalent. like to me that's just what my partner's family speaks

[girlonthelasttrain]

I've been laughing on and off for a week about Cassandra Clare using the Venetian dialect as a fantasy foreign language in her latest novel. Like I know to an anglophone audience it sounds like something fancy (it IS what people historically spoke in Venice and Verona) but for an Italian one... very much not so