Timeline for Why does Michael Corleone need a bodyguard to translate for him when he first met Apollonia's father?
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| Nov 14, 2019 at 14:25 | comment | added | tbrookside | @releseabe That's a good point. It's also likely that the Italian-American neighborhood of NY where Vito Corleone lived had Italians from many different regions living in it, so Michael would have even more reason to doubt that he'd be fluent enough for this particular occasion in this particular location. | |
| Nov 14, 2019 at 13:38 | comment | added | releseabe | just to emphasize: not Italian, Sicilian which I understand is quite different than Italian. Many cognates but also many Arabic-based words. What I figure Michael's backstory is, as the youngest he probably picked up the least Sicilian if indeed his parents spoke that at home and the street lingo would have been Italian/English. | |
| Nov 13, 2019 at 21:59 | history | answered | tbrookside | CC BY-SA 4.0 |