Talk:Italian profanity

message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.145.184.62 (talk) 20:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

message: Hi. Are we sure we want to keep the part of the page with the blasphemies?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.50.185.243 (talk) 11:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah, u r right, but with full words it's much more clear and simple to read (especially for non-italian users)... cya ;) --DrugoNOT 11:00, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think that Robertoreggi must stop to fight edit wars in every Wiki just because he feels offended by italian profanity (expecially blaspheme kind) --151.51.28.88 (talk) 18:48, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Quite no. "Me cojoni" is definitely Roman dialect (and very typical of it), and is not part of Italian language. Nobody would say it in Tuscany, or Sicily. --Angelo 20:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Doesn't the above phrase mean "God help/bless/assist you" or something? How come (that is, if there is any historical reason)it means "God is a taxi driver"? Please don't get impatient with me as I don't speak the language fluently.--Faizaguo 23:34, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As Hybris77 said, it's a pun. "t'assista" with the apostrophe is the short form of "ti assista", that means "help you". "tassista" instead means "taxi driver" (since "taxi" is called also "tassì" or "tassi" in Italian). Taxi service in Italy is very expensive and there are much illegal taxi drivers - as some foreign tourist could have experienced. So it's a sort of swearword. See for example  --Lucas Malor (talk) 19:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, yeah, thanks a lot.--Faizaguo 15:22, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled conversations 

message: Their meaning in the article is inverted.
'sto cazzo = my arse, I don't give a damn or wow.
82.53.22.152 (talk) 18:05, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I just fixed that. 220.210.178.168 (talk) 16:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Sto cazzo and 'Sti cazzi 

message: Dio boia is mainly used in Tuscany while "Dio can" (phonetically, d̪ìɔ kàŋ. A typical dialect form for "Dio cane") is peculiar of Veneto.
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There were lot of edit reverts about dialect forms. 
Please, do not insert blasphemies related to a specific geographic area in the main list. Try to expand the topic after the sentence quoted up here.
Since it's hard to find encyclopedic sources about the topic, i suggest a criteria to know if a blasphemy is well used or not. Try to type it in google and read the number of results.
For example, "dio luamaro" (classifiable as "borderline" in an hypotetical scale of use because it's a dialect form) returns "About 12.000 results".
"Dio cane", one of the most common blasphemies, returns "About 372.000 results" (using hl=it as search parameter).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.51.189.65 (talk) 12:57, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed "dio lupo" from the main list (only 4.200 results, and it's clearly a regional presidium) --151.51.35.206 (talk) 09:34, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blasphemies and dialects 

message: What about these typically southerly insults to one's mother, sister, wife or girlfriend? I expected to find some of these here, too. Don't we all remember the Materazzi-Zidane quarrel in the 2006 FIFA World Cup? Steinbach (talk) 11:48, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can collect material, open a new section. You're welcome.--13:54, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mediterranean insult 

message: "Ciola" means dick in apulian, not in calabrese.
In Calabria and in Sicily it's used the word "minchia". 
I'm calabrese so i think to know it... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.33.25.139 (talk) 20:29, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ciolla" 

message: this page has been vandalized by a section blanking attack and i cannot revert the vandalism due to the filtering system. Please restore the old Mirokado version and ask if possible, a partial protection of the page. 95.252.246.223 (talk) 16:04, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have undone that edit, which removed referenced material, without prejudice to the discussion already taking place above. --Mirokado (talk) 16:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restore the page 

message: Source of "bioparco" can be located here. Bioparco it's not a pretty old minced oath, it was born a couple of years ago due to a popular radio talk show in wich the frontman of Elio e le storie tese created a fake minced oaths' chart. Two of those minced oaths spread around very quickly: "bioparco", minced oath for "dio porco" and "orto mio", for "orco dio".11:32, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minced oaths sources 

message: The articles advises that this a pejorative for a homosexual, corresponding to the usual English one.  However, in the novel The Godfather, Mario Puzo has Vito Corleone deride Johnny Fontane as a “Hollywood finocchio.”  Although I’m sure that Corleone could have used quite a few choice Italian pejoratives to fling at his errant godson, this hardly seems appropriate for the skirt-chasing Fontane.
On another site, it indicates the word is related to an aromatic bulbous plant with a connotation of being offensive.  I gather that a meaning of “weak exhibitionist jerk” might be more in line as to what Corleone intended to imply.  Is the connotation of calling a man a homosexual certain?  HistoryBuff14 (talk) 20:58, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finocchio - Meaning? 

message: Today I tagged a number of unsourced items and statements with . If these are not sourced in a reasonable time, say a week, more or less, I will remove them. Unsourced items added in future may be removed without tagging or warning. A list such as this need particularly careful attention to sourcing, precisely because of the temptation to add things that "everyone knows" and also because meanings of what are, after all, slang or informal phrases may not be as consistent or invariable as some editors might thing. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 23:01, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing 

message: The games that play in Italy are full of guards using Italian profanity. Provided reliable sources, should the "in literature" section title be changed to "in media" or something, or should a new section be created? PizzaMan ♨♨♨ 19:10, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: you could create a section titled "in other media" Olimpia709 (talk) 20:24, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassin's Creed