10/22/2023 0 Comments Sicilian phrases funny![]() Sogno d’Oro (Golden Dream) – A popular and aspirational name.Mediterranea (Mediterranean) – A popular name that evokes the beauty of the Mediterranean Sea.Sole Mio (My Sun) – A popular and cheerful name.Vita Bella (Beautiful Life) – Another popular name that celebrates the boating lifestyle.Andiamo (Let’s Go) – A popular and inviting name for any boat.La Perla (The Pearl) – A popular and sophisticated name.Il Tesoro (The Treasure) – A popular name for cherished boats. ![]() Azzurro (Blue) – A simple and widely used name, inspired by the sea’s color.La Principessa (The Princess) – A popular and elegant name.Il Sogno (The Dream) – A popular name for those who’ve achieved their dream boat. ![]() Serenità (Serenity) – A peaceful and widely used name.Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) – A patriotic and popular name among Italians.La Dolce Vita” is a widely recognized Italian phrase that evokes a sense of the good life, leisure, and enjoyment, making it a popular choice for boat owners. La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) – A classic perennial favorite boat name.Amore Mio (My Love) – A romantic and widely used name.Bella Vita (Beautiful Life) – A popular name that captures the essence of boating.the government and the establishment speaks italian and its a beautiful language but its not the language of my people. and its not the same!!! i love the italian language family ancestors did not speak tuscan italian which is now standard italian they spoke sicilian, napolitano, and baresi but i only know sicilian. and people go " oh i guess you arent italian" sicilian was my first language ffs lol. often i think the word in dialect is the same word in standard and its not. but standard italian is hard because we have " dialect" habits that are so hard to break. napolitano is way closer to sicilian than standard italian. this list is so charming because i didnt know both my ancestrial languages were so similar. I was raised with only sicilian spoken in the house so i had no choice but to be bi lingual with that.but still not literate in italian. I dont know any napolitano even though im 100 percent italian blood american lol. Ciao!Ĭopyright, Jerry Finzi, Grand Voyage Italy, All rights reserved If you found this post useful, please LIKE it and tell your friends about Grand Voyage Italy. Naboleedahn Neapolitan/someone from Naples ![]() Medz-a-medz So-so/half and half/not so much Gobba-ghool Capicola (a type of cold cut meat) spelled phonetically:Īgida/Agita Acid indigestion caused by someone aggravating youĪ-fa Nabalee Get out of Here/Go to Naples Here are a collection of words and phrases that I grew up with. These dialects are what makes Italian so interesting. They are looked down upon for speaking it by Northern Italians. Even today in the South parents don't want their children to speak Dialect when they move to the big cities in Italy. When I asked why my parents didn't teach us Italian, they said they wanted an "All-American" home for us. Now, add to all this the fact that Italian immigrants in American spoke a sort of second hand Italian dialect, much was lost to misunderstood pronunciations and the fact that many (like my parents) didn't want to speak Italian in the home. Dialect sounds nothing like regular Italian down South. for example, the announcements on the train from Bari to Rome are in English, Italian and " Dialetto". Even Italians consider these dialects like another language. Usually, the end of one word attaches to the beginning of the next word. The words in the South are often totally different. If you watch the Godfather, especially the scenes in GF II showing Vito Corleone as a young man, you can hear this sort of dialect. My mother often said that my father's dialect was so different from hers that she couldn't understand certain words. My Mom's mother and father came from Naples. My father was born in Molfetta, Puglia in the South.
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