The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, as quoted in David Booth, The principles of English composition (1831), p. 8.
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Indeed, when I was last in graduate school, the rest of us swiftly learned that when the Italian students seemed to be arguing vehemently amongst themselves, they were mere conversing. (They did not speak to us as they did to each other.)