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Ubatz??
Someone can tell me what does that mean again?
The other day 'Fungool', today 'Ubatz', I'm a native Italian speaker and it seem this subreddit is a bit too much invaded by American slangs instead of actual Italian language.
Sorry to be that person, but this is getting a little annoying.
I think somebody should create a different subreddit to post about that, if there isn't one already.
Americalian, the way Americans think to speak italian :>
It means , "holy shit". Anyway, that's how it was translated when a character said it from when I watched Gamorrah; an italian series.
The problem is a large proportion of the immigrants to the US in the late 1800s/early 1900s were coming from the rural south and were most likely speaking predominantly dialect rather than Italian (which only became the official language of a unified Italy around 1865 - so less than 50 years prior to this period of migration).
Dialect can be very different from Italian and add to this 3-4 generations now of diluting the language as most immigrants to America due tend to lose their native language 1-2 generations in. So now there are an amalgamation of these slang terms that are in the US and have been further moved away from their origin.
Gomorrah though interestingly enough would be representing Campania which does still have a population speaking napolitano dialect. So it may have actually been more similar to what you would hear in the Sopranos as an example rather than italian.
Ubatz!!
Gabbagool!
I can't really think of any italian word meaning "holy shit" that sound similar to the word "ubatz". The language they speak in the serie Gomorra is not Italian tho, it is the Neapolitan language, so maybe that is an American slang word derived by a Neapolitan one.
I start to think that this sub must be renamed "Italo-american"
As an Italian sometime is kind of embarrassing
I didnt know Italy was so full of soy, either.
Oh I get that you don't know Italy, believe me
Then it's just you. I was worried for a second nobody there had a sense of humor or knew what a meme was.
Not as worried as joe mum
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