Talk:Funiculì, Funiculà

message: The article doesn't actually give a translation of the title. Presumably it has something to do with "funicular", but what's the difference between "Funiculì" and 
"Funiculà"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.81.140.128 (talk) 12:03, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Funiculì" doesn't mean anything, it's a bit of a word twist. I believe the rithm of this song is a kind of Tarantella, and it is quite typical of southern songs to have this assonant choruses alternating endings in "i" and "a" (for example). Most often the other sounds don't make much sense, as in scat singing. It is already a lot that most of the word is even close to "funicolare" (or "funiculare" as a Neopolitan would say) 118.90.77.81 (talk) 10:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning of Title

message: I believe the person who made the translation from the Neapolitan dialect into English made a mistake. In the original it's written La capa vota, vota, attuorno, attuorno, which was translated as "The empty empty summit, around, around". However, the word vota means "to turn", not "empty". The verse should be translated like this: "The summit turns around, turns around" or something similar. The same error was made in the Spanish page for this article, probably because the person(s) who wrote it simply translated directly from the English version.--Rikaris (talk) 02:48, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation error

message: has the song playing continuessly over and over again on their advertisements.. approved or dismissed?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.234.144.226 (talk) 19:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Venetian hotel las vegas comercial

message: Why was the MIDI file of the song's melody that I submitted removed? - Conrad Devonshire 01:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:COPYRIGHT issues at a guess. FlagSteward (talk) 16:50, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: MIDI removed

message: In an episode of the anime FLCL, a character says something that sounds very similar to the title.  It might be a pop culture reference.  Anyone seen the show and know what I mean?  Furi kuri, furi kura.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.184.39.100 (talk) 19:34, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Anime reference

message: is this the pizza song  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.11.166 (talk) 20:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: yes 2603:6011:F403:A00:457D:913D:B382:5D00 (talk) 05:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: 🍕 2A00:23C6:BE86:B401:A02E:5724:4A0A:3567 (talk) 09:01, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Pizza Song 

message: I believe "Nanninè", is a name -- most likely "Caroline". "Nanninè" does not mean "my love" in any dialect.
"oì nanninè" is "Oh, Caroline!" (as in another well-known Neapolitan song "oi Marie"! ) 
oì Nè is "Oh, Nè", short for "Oh, Caroline"
Therefore the song means "Marry me, Caroline", not "Marry me, my love" -- Just saying.
The song was also arranged very beautifully by Arnold Schoenberg for string quartet, as I recall.173.56.200.209 (talk) 03:51, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Various sources confirm that it is a name, including my liner notes to Pavarotti's 1979 Decca LP, Favorite Neapolitan Songs, which I own. These are not folk songs using stock phrases, but art poetry, and are quite literary and poetic. Unfortunately almost all the lyrics on the web are garbled. I'm waiting to find a better version for the second verse (not on Pavarotti's album) the meaning of which still escapes me.173.56.200.209 (talk) 06:08, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: More translation notes

message: The Italian lyrics shown in the article include the following, "Jamme, jamme 'ncoppa, jamme jà...".  There is no "J" in the Italian alphabet.  Why is "J" shown in the Neapolitan version of the song?  Is this an oversight, or an oddity of the dialect around Naples? 
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replies: text: This is indeed how you're supposed to spell that sound in southern Italian accents. Many words typical of dialects around Rome and souther would require the use of the "j" ("i lunga" in Italian) for this construction. What's never in Italian are the letters "k", "y" ("i greca"), "x" and "w". The "j" is also part of some southern family names, a famous example being the case of Ettore and Quirino Majorana, as well as the first name Jacopo (which is indeed also found spelled with an "I" to be true). (Luca, sorry I have no account) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.77.81 (talk) 09:44, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no "J" in the Italian alphabet.  Why is "J" shown in the Neapolitan version of the song? 

message: Maybe it could be mentioned that the Disney movie "Fun and Fancy Free" (early 1940's) has an episode (the second one) that is the story of Jack and the Magic Beans, in which Goofy and Donald Duck sing a song about food on the musical theme of Funiculì, Funiculà. (Luca, sorry I have no account) 118.90.77.81 (talk) 09:52, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A movie to quote 

message: There is no need for second 'f' to be incorrectly capitalised 'F' according to WikiProject Classical Music MOS. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:10, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Small f

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message: Title explains everything  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:25A0:B070:A479:655B:3F58:5601 (talk) 22:01, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  There has been a Sesame Street cover of this 

message: this is included in the app ditty.it, leading to the popular "pizza pasta put it in a box" version  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lovebuny (talk • contribs) 16:00, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  inclusion in ditty.it 

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message: There are parodies of this song that should probably be mentioned in the article JayBirdtyper (talk) 17:18, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parodies 

message: Cafe Funiculi Funicula is the name of the time-traveling cafe in the book Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54373691-before-the-coffee-gets-cold thistlechick (talk) 14:07, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the book Before the Coffee Gets Cold 

message: Why is this category added to the bottom? Shadowjonathan (talk) 18:54, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Authority control databases"?