Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Inglese maccheronico

Have a look at this:
http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/biografia/biografia.html
 
Unbelievable...
Cat

 
Se n'č gią discusso in passato.
 
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MM

 MM
I'm terribly sorry. I didn't know because I am new here. That's why. I
didn't mean to be repetitive.
Cat

 didn't mean to be repetitive.
Don't worry, it was worth reading again :-)
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Mary

 Cat
Welcome!
-- 
Pear pea a chair, Ray. Core Reggie eel me oh eat alien, oh... :)
Joey DoWop, working on a temporary account.

 Cat
Oh, you be careful, don't meow out loud. There's this guy here who's
probably thinking about eating you. :)
Sebastiano/evil grin
-- 
Paul : Rory! Go sit in the car!
Rory : But, dad! We're at home!
Paul : GO SIT IN THE CAR! 

 Sebastiano/evil grin
Yes, that's right, and just to clarify things, it is not I! (Or as we say
in the US "It's not me!") You might be confused by this other "Joe" who
shows up from time to time, Joe from Massachusetts, and even *I* get
confused when I see his sig, because I used to be from Massachusetts and
I'm Joe, too. He used to be from New York, which is where I am now, so it
gets even more confusing.
HOWEVER, the similarity ends there; I've never eaten a cat. I love cats,
but not in the culinary way. My cat even took over for me when I had an
unfortunate accident some months back, and he did an admirable job, if I do
say so myself.
Anyway, welcome to the ng.
Just keep your Joes and your Maxes straight... :O
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probably thinking about eating you. :)
Did I hear you call my name?
cheers,
Peltio
I love cats.
With potatoes.

Thank you for your "welcome". It's a pleasure. And I DO promise I
won't meow out loud!
Cat


Don't listen to this guy, or you'll end up learning "inglese
'meregannico'".
He gets up in the morning and has a shot of
Grappa in his espresso. After a long day absorbing culture at
Gardaland, he goes home at night and listens to Radio Sboro and drinks
refrigerated wine. I guess you can't blame him. They're all a little
crazy where he comes from. He's just jealous that the Montagues and
the Capulets builit their castles in the neighboring province of the
magnagati, and not in his province. All he has is a silly little
balcony in the city where Juliet supposedly "wherefore art thou" 'd
her Romeo.
As for cats, I never knowingly ate a cat while I was in Vicenza. In
fact, I don't ever recall seeing a cat there. Hmm.....I wonder why?
:>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 :>)
I hope you never ate rabbit in Vicenza.
-- 
oggi no, domani sì

 I hope you never ate rabbit in Vicenza.
Only when it still had the ears attached - very, very long ears.  :>)
Speaking of rabbits, it is rare here in the US to see rabbit on the
menu in a restaurant, except in German restaurants, where
"hasenpfeffer" is invariably an item on the menu.
Joe from Massachusetts

 I hope you never ate rabbit in Vicenza.
In the US, I saw a Cambodian restaurant, and right next to it was an animal
hospital. I decided not to eat there.

 item on the menu.
Many families had rabbits only 30 years ago.
I still remember when a friend and I used to go along the 
roads' sides to cut down (public property) grass to feed 
his rabbits; one day I went to his house and he was just 
killing one (whack! on its nape, like karate) then he hang 
it by its feet and flayed it.
Dear little wabbit!
Nowadays many children want a fluffy rabbit as a pet. Boh.
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 menu in a restaurant
different habit. something like "oh poor rabbit etc"
I'm told you don't eat horses (poor horses!) too

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Just like the restaurant next door to Sweeney Todd's barber shop on
Fleet Street.
Joe from Massachusetts

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There was an effort to induce people to eat horse meat about ten years
ago, but I think most Americans don't like the idea of eating a horse,
just as they could not imagine eating a dog.
Joe from Massachusetts

 I'm told you don't eat horses (poor horses!) too
Non so perché, ma io avrei scritto "...you don't eat horses either".
-- 
Xakero

 Non so perché, ma io avrei scritto "...you don't eat horses either".
non lo so usare d'aggettivo, figurati d'avverbio! ;)

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Because the sentence is negative.
Bye, FB
-- 
Se dico "siedi!" manca l'oggetto.
Siedo chi? Lei o me?
(da it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

 fact, I don't ever recall seeing a cat there. Hmm.....I wonder why?
We don't eat cats in Vicenza, not now at least.

 Joe from Massachusetts
Well, a couple of years ago while I was eating at a restaurant in
Vicenza I heard a woman screaming. There was a mouse in her "spaghetti
allo scoglio"! I'm serious.

 We don't eat cats in Vicenza, not now at least.
Well, of course.
I have nothing against Vicenza (I am from Verona). I have many friends from
there. And they don't eat cats. And we're not that crazy. :)
It's just a joke between me, an Italian tutomato and Joe, an Ammeregan
maiagato. ^_^
The other Joe, let's call him Joey, is a ketzl lover. Ketzl, BTW, is not
too fond of humans. :)
Sebastiano
-- 
[The team's plane is starting to malfunction]
Face : Uh, Murdoch, what's going to happen?
Murdock : Looks like we're going to crash.'
Face : No, what's REALLY going to happen?
Murdock : Looks like we're going to crash and DIE. 

 allo scoglio"! I'm serious.
They ran out of cats.
Sebastiano/ok, I'll stop :P
-- 
Ira Gaines : That's right, we're watching you. 

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Not since the decree of 1943.  ;>)
I used to read the "Giornale di Vicenza" on line in "pdf" format, when
it was free, and I remember seeing an advertising campaign for the
restaurants in Vicenza which featured a picture of a cat sitting on a
plate, so I guess they are trying to use a little humor to publicize
some aspects of the city.
When I was in Vicenza I used to eat lunch with some Italian friends in
"pensioni" (if that
is the right word). One place was at the Northwest corner of the Ponte
San Michele (#9, I think). It was a residence for several students
from the "Rossi". I also used to eat at another place, at the home of
a woman who cooked very good meals for a mixture of businessmen and
school teachers. When one of her long-time customers left, she cooked
a special meal in his honor - "poenta e osei". She was a formidable
woman, and she only served lunch to people who met her strict
standards. The friend who introduced me to her was a lawyer from
Ferrara, so I guess it was his reputation rather than my own
qualifications which gained me entry to the group. What is important
about this is her name, which I think I can reveal, since by now she
is probably cooking for the angels. Her name was Signora Scannagatta,
and with a name like that you know she was thoroughly Vicentine. She
was well past the age of retirement when I knew her.
My favorite food in Vicenza was "pasticcio", although my fellow
American soldiers ate nothing but spaghetti. Whenever they had meat
sauce, they would make some remark about what kind of meat was in it,
but they always ate it.
Your original post pointing to those bad translations reminds me of
something I read two years ago when the Statute of the Lega Nord was
translated from Italian into the "mother language",
"il veneziano ostrega". The translation was so bad that a critic said
that not even Alberto Soldi (that's the critic's spelling) spoke
such a terrible Veneto dialect.
Joe from Massachusetts


What's the matter, Seba, has the Cat got your tongue?
Joe from Massachusetts

 eating a dog.
Here there are some ostrich breeders and also an ostrich 
fair in a town, they are trying to induce people to eat 
ostrich meat.
And Australians eat kangaroo meat.
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Was it alive or dead and cooked?
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I have seen ostrich meat in some supermarkets, but have never tried
it. There are also ostrich breeders here, but who knows if the meat
will become popular.
With all the kangaroos in Australia, it is not surprising that they
eat kangaroo meat.
Alligator is fairly popular in the Southern States of the US, where
they can be hunted on a limited basis. They are also bred commercially
on alligator ranches.
Joe from Massachusetts
Joe from Massachusetts

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Dead and cooked.


Ma le ostriche sono buonissime!!!!!! ;)

 Dead and cooked.
What kind of sauce... ?? :)))

 What's the matter, Seba, has the Cat got your tongue?
Yeah, he told me to shut up. :)
Sebastiano
-- 
Chris Turk : "Ankles" is a simple game. The first one to get embarrassed
and pull up their scrubs loses. 

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A mousse, I'd say. (please, laugh)
Bye, FB
-- 
"Come, dear, we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any
more might expose us to comment on the platform."
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

 Joe from Massachusetts
OK, let's go on with food perversions: what about frogs and 
snails?
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 Bye, FB
So, is that "mouse au mousse" or "mousse au mouse"?
(yes I'm laughing. softly. no one can hear me.)
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Still on a temporary account. Now I've lost the DSL altogether.
Using DIALUP!

 snails?
Well, to the best of my knowledge, frogs eat flies and other insects, and
snails eat slimy stuff from the bottom of the pond.
(But they're not really perversions to the frogs and snails.) :)
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