Re: [GEOG][ITAL][HIST][OT][XNA] Tedium

Bada bing Gene E Bloch <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> bada bang:
On 9/18/2008, Mike Yetto posted this:
Bada bing Gene E Bloch <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> bada bang:
On 9/18/2008, Blinky the Shark posted this:
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:00:35 -0700
Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/18/2008, Mike Yetto posted this:

Somehow, the modern Italian version of this is "go to Naples."

It can't be modern: I heard it as a child (in Phillie). "Ba fa Nap'"
is what it sounded like to my ear. Often there was a visual component
as well :-)


Actually: /vai Napoli/ and a flick of the chin.

No. "Ba fa Nap" and a flick of other parts of the body. It might have
been "Va fa Nap" (maybe they do as in Spanish, spell it with a V but
pronounce it [sort of]like a B, or maybe I just didn't sort out that
phoneme properly).

Maybe the people who said that in my presence weren't Neapolitans. Or
any other kind of ice cream, for that matter.

The other saying is /Vedi Napoli e poi morire/.

I've heard that in other languages about other places. I'd prefer to
live, anyway.

Mike "Sono Porci Qui Roma" Yetto

All I can get from that (too lazy to look it up anywhere, it's quitting
time here) is some pun-like construction meaning "I am pigs that roam"
- but what do I know?


I'm at risk here by giving actual information, but it is Mostly
Harmless anyway.

The Romans would put SPQR on public structures in Rome, in
Brindisi (the other end of the Apian Way) it would be SPQB. This
stood for something like Dept. of Public Works, or look what the
Senate is doing for you.

Howsomeever, it is often expanded to Sono Porci Qui <insert city
here> meaning They're all Pigs Here in <that same city>.

This is fun - I can post in this sub thread even though I have nothing
to contribute that would be actually on-topic for nsr... :-)


Mike "it's all fun and games till someone loses a dictionary" Yetto
--
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitas.
- William of Ockham
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