Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Trivia

While I was looking for LA's official name (a Spanish phrase I couldn't
remember), I came across this list of English language trivia.
http://rumkin.com/fun/trivia/index.php?category=12
Ari

 remember),
Nuestra Senora de los Angeles? 

 
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2004-04-06: In 18th century England, macaroni was a synonym for perfection 
and excellence. That's why, for example, the feather in Yankee Doodle's cap 
was called macaroni. In fact, the word macaroni means dearest darlings in 
Italian. 

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Balderdash.
http://www.jolique.com/social_status/yankee_doodle.htm
Joe from Massachusetts

 
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Nevertheless here Macaroni means nothing, but a defect in pronunciation ;) 

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Yes, something like that.  The link I posted has as the official name
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles.  However, I
couldn't find any info in the Los Angeles official home page.  They
might have changed the name and forgot to notify me!
bye
Ari

 Nuestra Senora de los Angeles?
El pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.
-- 
antofa

That's right.  De Porciuncula was part of the original name of that
Pueblo.  I am not sure it was included when LA became a city, but you
may be right.
anyway, I think I lost a bet because I cannot find any official info
regarding that name.
bye
ari

 remember),
Provo senza googlare: "Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Porciúncola de
Asís" (= "Nostra Signora degli Angeli presso la Porziuncola di Assisi" =
"Our Lady of the Angels in the Porziuncola of Assisi").
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 Italian.
E che dire della traduzione di "Porciúncola" come "little portion"!? 
Ovviamente, si tratta invece della Porziuncola, la famosa chieda di
Assisi. Come sanno anche i sassi, la città di Los Angeleles, come molte
altre città californiane (in particolare, ovviamente, San Francisco e
Santa Clara), fu fondata da missionari francescani saliti dal Messico.
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 Assisi.
No, non credo abbia niente a che fare con quella chiesa.  Il nome e' El
Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de
Porciúncula.
ari

San Rafael, San Leandro, San Bruno, San Ramon, Santa Monica, San Diego,
San Juan Capistrano, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Santa Ana, San Isidro, San
Bernardino, San Lorenzo, San Jose (one of the biggest cities in CA),
San Carlos, San Mateo (that's the county I reside in), Santa Rosa, etc,
etc, etc....

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When my wife and I took her parents on a trip to California, my
mother-in-law was fascinated by the number of Missions which still
exist from the days of Fra Junipero Serra. We visited as many as we
could along the old "Camino Real" from San Diego to San Francisco.
Some of the original missions remain, and are still Catholic churches.
Some were destroyed and have been restored or rebuilt. It is a
fascinating part of California's history.
http://missions.bgmm.com/
Joe from Massachusetts

 
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This brings to mind "Vertigo".
Bye, FB
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After a year of speculation, inventor Dean Kamen unveiled his mysterious
"It", which is a battery-powered two-wheel people mover. Many believe it
will completely revolutionize the way people get hit by cars.
(Saturday Night Live)

 Porciúncula.
I think that "Río Porciúncula" (aka "Los Angeles River") is itself an
abbreviation for "Río de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la
Porciúncola de Asís"...
I.e., the Franciscans first named the river after some Saint
Francis-related festival that occurred the day they discovered it, and
later on named the mission they built (and the indian pueblo which
developed around it) after the river.
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