This evening, at my Italian class
Sep. 27th, 2006 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomwe studied the idiom da . . . in . . ., as in "da giorno in giorno" (from day to day), discussed our favorite seasons, read a bit of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, described la nostra città ideale, and learned how to say "blow-job" in Italian.
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Date: 2006-09-27 03:09 am (UTC)Your class sound much more interesting!!!
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Date: 2006-09-27 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 03:33 am (UTC)I believe I'm waiting for the next sentence, whereupon you give the correct phrase in Italian and maybe a pronunciation key in parentheses. It would be very helpful; we might make it to Italy one day and I'm sure my husband would like to have the correct pronunciation so that he could decline said service, should the offer arise. ;)
Ah... Brings back the days in Spanish class when we were taught some phrases guaranteed to get one into a bar fight.
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Date: 2006-09-27 01:18 pm (UTC)Okay, okay.
It's un pompino, accent on the second syllable. This came up (~snerk~) because the word pompieri (firemen) was in our lesson, and the instructor wanted to make sure we didn't use the wrong word. [Insert crude joke here.]
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Date: 2006-09-27 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 10:16 am (UTC)Did yuo know that the street word for masturbation in spanish "hacerse una paja" (literally, do oneself a straw) comes straight from latin? The simile was used in latin because of the seed relation (straw has seeds. Masturbation usually ends up with the spilling of seed). Am I sick to find this fact incredibly interesting?
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Date: 2006-09-28 12:25 pm (UTC)Not at all! I think the derivation of words and phrases is fascinating. One of the reasons that I get aggravated with people who want to artificially "simplify" spellings is that how a word is spelled, or how it naturally changes, can tell us a lot about where it came from.
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Date: 2006-10-01 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 04:20 am (UTC)So you're attending BJU these days?
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Date: 2006-09-27 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 10:09 am (UTC)(Waiting to learn hot to say it in italian).
I can say an assortment of unpolite things in italian, and if I want to communicate with an italian I only have to speak slooowly in spanish and he/she slooowly in italian, and that, along with some mediterranean hand gestures to help fill in the gaps, suffices. But apart from the international gesture Annulla pointed out, I don't know how to say blow-job in italian. Don't leave me in the dark...
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Date: 2006-09-27 01:19 pm (UTC)See my response to Madame_Urushiol above!
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Date: 2006-09-27 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 11:30 am (UTC)Finally, something you can use! ;)
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Date: 2006-09-27 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 01:20 pm (UTC)It's pompino (see my response to Madame_Urushiol above).
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Date: 2006-09-27 01:25 pm (UTC)