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No, they pronounce it correctly.

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I think OP was asking about young kids who are still learning to pronounce words correctly.

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I think I quick edit in the title would have cleared up a lot of confusion here.

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Exactly, it’s Pischetti

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Bruschetta

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I was once an Italian kid. My parents would have beat me if I pronounced spaghetti wrong.

So no. They don’t.

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And if they do, they won’t be able to tell you after

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Kids are about the only thing Italians can beat in a fight.

Amirite?

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Ah yes, threats of abuse, famous for always having the outcome they intend

[edit: especially when dealing with children who are still developing their ability to speak and comprehend speech]

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It was a critique of being raised by Italian parents in the 80s/90s. Please be aware that I made a joke

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It was good. I enjoyed it. Not everything needs to trigger some morally righteous response in our world.

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How do you mispronounce something with your hands?

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“Thank you” and “bullshit” are pretty close in American Sign Language.

It happens!

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Thank you and bitch are much closer. At least the way I learned bullshit involved two hands.

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I always thought the mispronunciation was more of a puhscetti than a buhsgetti

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I’ve encountered both. The two I mentioned got the point across.

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We say spuhghetti around these parts.

I feel like I’m misunderstanding the joke though.

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They’re talking about when young Italian kids are first learning the word do they mispronounce it the same way.

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The pronunciations you have in your head are mispronunciations that some children & uneducated people use.

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Yes, that’s why OP is asking if Italian children make similar mispronunciations. Like is it an artifact of learning a word that sounds like that in general or of learning it in the context of English specifically?

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From what I remember the last time I heard an Italian kid mispronounce spaghetti they just skipped the s so the result was paghetti.

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Heh. When my daughter was small, she could say spaghetti, but also added the initial “s” to baguette, making it a “spaguette” .

We’re German, by the way, so we frequently eat both.

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