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Titolo: Grazie ancora a sud

Qualcuno mi puo' spiegare la frase "Grazie ancora a sud"? Grazie.
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 Qualcuno mi puo' spiegare la frase "Grazie ancora a sud"? Grazie.
"Sud" is the name of a poster to this group :-)
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Mary

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<doh!>
Thanks Mary.
I was thinking it was something like "Thank you from the bottom of my
heart" (which can be made into "Thank you from the heart of my bottom")
because of the reference to (I thought) the south! Ah well.
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:18:47 +0200, Mary Cassidy wrote:
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Joey, I'm sorry but I'm going to burst out laughing! Uahahaaaaaaaaaa! I
don't belieeeve it! A heart-attack... I'm having a heart-attack!
It was not *that* loud, was it? You know, sometimes I think I should
restrain myself less.
Non temere, Joey: prima o poi avrai modo di ridere fragorosamente di me.
(friendly face)
P.S. Non sei permaloso, vero? Se vuoi tirarmi un cazzotto *, sappi che
porto gli occhiali. Quando leggo, almeno. Beh, sappi che sto leggendo.
* Cazzotto: it's not so vulgar as it might seem, 'f you know what I mean.
Ciao, FB
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"Gli americani sono ignoranti per loro stessa natura"
that is "The Americans are naturally ignorant"
(Paolo Bonardi on it.cultura.linguistica)

 porto gli occhiali. Quando leggo, almeno. Beh, sappi che sto leggendo.
Permaloso no. Io so ridermi anche di me stesso (if that makes sense). Ma
gli occhiali li porto anche io quando leggo, quindi quel cazzotto tiratoti
rifletterebbe anche su di me.
One of my e-mail signatures is: "Remember: It is to Laugh", something I
learned from my Calabrese grandmother. She used to say "laughter is the
best medicine" (I believe it) and she loved telling us the same five or six
stories over and over again, and she would laugh hysterically every time.
We laughed too, but after hearing the stories once or twice we weren't
laughing at at the stories but because she got such a kick out of telling
them.
The one in particular that made her go wild was about a funeral, where, as
the cortege made its way along the street to the cemetary, band playing and
all, the bottom fell out of the coffin -- along with the corpse -- but the
music was loud and everyone was crying and so no one noticed, and they kept
going.
Now, on many levels, that story seems improbable -- impossible, even -- but
she loved telling it, and we loved that she did.
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 rifletterebbe anche su di me.
you can say "Io so ridere anche di me (stesso)", but I put that "stesso"
into parentheses because
you can also avoid it if you want.

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Thanks!
And it isn't necessary to use "ridersi di"? (If not, I definitely need a
new dictionary.)
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 new dictionary.)
mmm never heard of it, why don't you report some examples on your dictionary
here anyway?
we can check it, for what my attempt is worth... :)
it's also quite common to say "ridersela di qualcuno" when you're mocking
someone who's absent :)

 someone who's absent :)
Oh, but I would *NEVER* do that! (eeheehee)
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 Oh, but I would *NEVER* do that! (eeheehee)
eheheh I can't believe it =)

 (look at how he boasts, he's ridiculous!)
It's a great expression. I think I'll start using it in English.
(I think it sounds better in the singular in English, though.)
"....."
"That's enough to make a chicken laugh!"
:)
(And that reminds me of a hilarious scene in "Bread and Chocolate" when
he's thinking of taking a job at the chicken farm!)
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 he's thinking of taking a job at the chicken farm!)
never seen that movie =)

 she loved telling it, and we loved that she did.
I quote the whole story. Thanks for sharing it with us (pluralis
maiestatis).
Bye, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

 Quindi posso venir fuori dall'armadio?
Dipende. Hai finito con lo stirare?
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 because of the reference to (I thought) the south! Ah well.
So you mean I am in the bottom of you heart or in the heart of your
bottom? Or you simply wished to tell the world that there's no difference
between the two?
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 between the two?
Not quite :) I'm not sure why we think a thank-you from the bottom of one's
heart is better than one, say, from the left ventricle, or the aorta, even,
but it's become a standard expression (somewhat dated now) and of course
the popular variation "from the heart of my bottom" was inevitable.
As for any difference between the bottom of my heart, the heart of my
bottom, the nose of my liver or the eyeballs of my spleen, etc., I"m not a
medical person so I can't comment.
Another interesting "heart" saying. "You are in my heart always" is a very
tender expression of undying affection or love, with no mention of the
exact placement within the heart. Apparently the implication is that you
have free range. :)
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I am Ketzl's stooge
Un-not my address if you wanna e-mail me..

 have free range. :)
and for the same reason as above one may find it comfortable to place the
person involved at the bottom of one's heart, or even at the top, although
evey top is the bottom of something else; in most cases it woud be much
more comfortable, I'm inclined to believe, than placing that person at the
heart of one's bottom
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 thoroughly and whole-heartedly.
LOL. Thank you for your "insight." You have obviously looked into the
matter long and hard, and have come out with some great thoughts.
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 matter long and hard, and have come out with some great thoughts.
Oh, not at all. By the way, I meant purely the conventional, not all the
imaginable. I guess now the subject is getting a little bit T...horny?
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 whoever it belongs to
"Whomever"?
Bye, FB
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 "Whomever"?
Se vuoi essere fiscale, sě, ma non lo usa nessuno.
-- 
Mary

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Tranne Jane e FB. :)
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:57:29 +0200, Mary Cassidy wrote:
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Nessuno no, ma io sě. (faccina sorridente e altera)
Ciao, FB
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del tuo pianerottolo.
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