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Like the time I was sitting on a bus is Italy many years ago and two girls were speaking in what sounded like German but somewhat like Italian. They were speaking in the dialect from their home town that was on the Austrian-Italian border. Fortunately they spoke English as well!

Or, this.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO2ZMlqVoA0
 
"You're just adding le to every word!"

Sorry, but this thread reminded me of the following!
 

 
A classic linguistic moment if there ever was one!

Sorry, but this thread reminded me of the following!
 

 
A classic linguistic moment if there ever was one!

Sorry, but this thread reminded me of the following!
 

 
A classic linguistic moment if there ever was one!

Regarding made up words, there is a word that is unique to my area that has a very complex etymology.
 
Years ago there was a Jewish guy who would travel the streets buying and selling rags. He was known by English speaking individuals as the "Rag Man". As he traversed the streets he would yell out, "Cash paid for rags!" However, he did so in an extremely heavy Yiddish accent that completely distorted the English words that he was attempting to intone. As such, the Italians who barely spoke English anyway and certainly could not comprehend when the other person spoke with a heavy accent, interpreted things to sound something like, "Shpiporags"! Therefore the word "Shpiporags" was born! It was used in two ways: to reference the Jewish vendor, but also to indicate that someone looked disheveled and was dressed in rags. Many times as a child if I came in from playing outside and I was dirty and perhaps ripped my shirt or got a hole in my pants my mom would say that I looked like a "Shpiporags"! The word is still used to this day among older individuals. However, only by local Italians and those who associated with Italians, many of whom think that it is an Italian word! I fear it will be totally forgotten in a decade or two.
 
Personally I think that the original Italian word for ragman straccivendolo has a nice ring to it, but obviously a hundred years ago some folks thought otherwise.
 
Just a bit of local lore.

It took me forever to figure out that bacouse was backhouse.

Like the time I was sitting on a bus is Italy many years ago and two girls were speaking in what sounded like German but somewhat like Italian. They were speaking in the dialect from their home town that was on the Austrian-Italian border. Fortunately they spoke English as well!

So true! I was having a discussion regarding that with a cousin just the other day. There are so many Italian words that our parents and grandparemts never used. Only my paternal grandfather was well educated in Italy. I even have one if his textbooks that was printed in Italy and mentions Victor Emmanuel as being the king! He was fluent in Italian and Neapolitan dialect. Plus, he spoke English as if his ancestors came over on the Mayflower. The rest of the family spoke only more or less a Neapolitan dialect and when they did not know a word for something they made one up based on an English word. As an example for some reason they never had a work for "Party". The Italian equivalent of festa was reserved for large scale events and most often religious festivals such as 'a festa di San Gennaro... the feast of Saint Gennaro. When Someone gave a birthday party if was referenced as o party! I can list quite a few the funniest of which is what the bathroom was called. It was o bacouse... the back house. Now I heard this Italian word well into the 1970's long after back houses ceased to exist!
 
Interestingly, regarding food, our ancestors preserved the recipes that were common at the beginning of the Twentieth Century in Italy. Recipes that no longer exist in Italy except perhaps in very rural areas or only in special regions.
 
Now regarding the pronunciation of such foods! Mozzarella, tomato, and basil was never referenced as mozzarella, pomodoro, e basilico. It was muzzarell', pumarol' e basinicol! With the last often becoming vasinicol... because as in Spanish the b and v were often interchanged!
 
So much for Italian dialect 101! Plus as xaf mentions add in the Sicilian dialect and you're in another world!!!! I know because a a few married into the family!

Italians who arrived to US between the end of XIX century until the 1970s 95% of the times came from rural areas of the South and the north eastern part of Italy and had none or very little education. They usually spoke only Italian dialects which sometimes are totally different form formal Italian, for example someone who speaks only Milanese can never have a conversation with someone who speaks only Sicilian.
The ones who arrived last and who are still alive learned to speak a mixture between dialect and broken English which is basically now a language by its own.
My mother-in-law was born in Sicily in the 30s, she arrived here in the early 70s, and when I met her I discovered a new language!
Italian/Americans who are convinced to speak "Italian" have their own vocabulary which somehow has become (especially with Italian words for some eatable stuff..) part of the American lingo.
 

Si! Il famigerato Canto III! A modo mio! Yes! The infamous Canto III! Just my way!
 
(La Divina Commedia: Inferno: Canto III)

Really? I can read Italian fairly easily just from French etc but can't understand it spoken at all.
 
Always & ever worth this:
 
Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l’etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
 
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e ‘l primo amore.
 
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

Well, when I get mad I always swear in Italian and specifically in the Neapolitan dialect of my ancestors!
 
As for being musical, I have become fluent in operatic Italian! As in: Gran Dio! E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma! È spenta! Mia vendetta e notte e giorno ruggirà intorno a te! Ti maledico! Che orrore! Sciagurato! È computa la vendetta! Numi pietà.
 
I could go on!

Well, when I get mad I always swear in Italian and specifically in the Neapolitan dialect of my ancestors!
 
As for being musical, I have become fluent in operatic Italian! As in: Gran Dio! E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma! È spenta! Mia vendetta e notte e giorno ruggirà intorno a te! Ti maledico! Che orrore! Sciagurato! È computa la vendetta! Numi pietà.
 
I could go on!

Well, when I get mad I always swear in Italian and specifically in the Neapolitan dialect of my ancestors!
 
As for being musical, I have become fluent in operatic Italian! As in: Gran Dio! E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma! È spenta! Mia vendetta e notte e giorno ruggirà intorno a te! Ti maledico! Che orrore! Sciagurato! È computa la vendetta! Numi pietà.
 
I could go on!

Born and raised in Italy, Italian remains my first language and I do count always in Italian
 
Lived in Mexico for 10 years, never studied the language, but it was quite easy to pick it up and I am now totally fluent in Spanish.
Lived in NY for 15 and I am definitely fluent in English. Still, Spanish is a bit better than my English...
I can have a basic conversation in French, which I never studied.
 
Native Italians in general are NOT very easy to pick up other languages (even if a foreign language is taught at school),
but I guess I have a "musical" ear...

I believe that is Joe Manganiello (of Magic Mike and Sophia Vergara fame)

Good Eye Funguy!
 
http://a1.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTE5NDg0MDU1Mjg3OTI0MjM5.jpg
 
Plus he looks good even in technicolor!
 

Good Eye Funguy!
 
http://a1.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTE5NDg0MDU1Mjg3OTI0MjM5.jpg
 
Plus he looks good even in technicolor!
 

I don't suppose you would believe me if I told you that Jason (my favorite bartender of all time) from the BW looked liked this, only bigger and sexier, and he doesn't wear underwear......I know, one of these days it's going to happen.

To get your week going. And speaking of going, if I knew where this guy was located that's exactly where I would be going!

http://36.media.tumblr.com/e21c564810c4d4c601ddb3262f60815d/tumblr_nrnid5LNAc1sd6p51o1_540.jpg
 
Plus the black and white photo seems to be an enhancement!

http://33.media.tumblr.com/b0449d2dd199026f066d5cac7bf42e15/tumblr_nh3v1aWXoe1rl3xhwo1_250.gif
 
This is hands down some of your finest work. I will never ever forget this one WG....:p
:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p...well you get the idea.
 
Does anyone happen to know the video this is from????

Today is the actual First Anniversary of this thread!
 
Therefore let's revisit another favorite hot scene:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/b0449d2dd199026f066d5cac7bf42e15/tumblr_nh3v1aWXoe1rl3xhwo1_250.gif
 
Plus some bonus shots to help you get through Hump Day! Plus this has been a tough week for all of us! As BVB says above I'm simply tying to "make your day a little bit better"! I hope it works!
 
http://ruscapturedboys.com/tour/4e4d631dfadd8892ccd0e2cf9ee1913a/thumbs/foto178.jpg http://ruscapturedboys.com/tour/4e4d631dfadd8892ccd0e2cf9ee1913a/thumbs/foto695.jpg
 
Plus there's nothing like a bit of CBT to go along with the TT!

http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww226/mattbran/For%20Posting/IMAG0093%2070%20sat%20%2020_zpsswophiow.jpg
 
But at times a good old vanilla approach is in order!
 
http://33.media.tumblr.com/00d5e939f9d735930d1d0689d989989c/tumblr_nq5eibz21A1uocdxao1_250.gif
 
http://33.media.tumblr.com/824f7768f2d0d8881f6b7217664110c9/tumblr_np9xiqcuN41uocdxao1_400.gif

I hope that there's a bit of something for everyone here!
 

36K....who knew. Nice to know that so many people took a peek, and in some small way their day was just a little bit better.

THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION: It's been a year and this thread still has followers.
 
The vanilla version:

http://41.media.tumblr.com/fbeaab95426b6dce4b029674d756ba12/tumblr_nshzaxRXVN1tj8en6o1_500.png
 
A kinkier version:
 
http://40.media.tumblr.com/6ca2ce3e45432221a779241e516aa895/tumblr_nfk2yjuJsj1siv8s8o2_1280.png
 
This shockingly epitomizes the theme of this thread if in a more literal sense:
 
http://33.media.tumblr.com/1cb3c1824cacc908e475e6ba5838e27e/tumblr_npzs3wfKZu1uocdxao1_r2_250.gif
 
Bonus shot:
 
http://41.media.tumblr.com/0486b4bbc79ebde47bc174a016dfd426/tumblr_mpuh29eZJN1st1w95o1_1280.jpg
 
This is one of my favorite pics that has been posted over the past year as there is so much going on. Plus there are those priceless facial expressions!
 
http://41.media.tumblr.com/ec489df0f5503cc00158818b34887735/tumblr_no25blri661r6w5b1o1_1280.jpg
 
Originally taken from as escort's blog. However, the Dom is not the escort. If anyone knows his identity a heads up would be appreciated!