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Grrr! Talkin' Like a 'Soprano' [It's "mani-got"... not manicotti]
FOXNEWS ^
| July 03, 2006
| By Mike Straka
Posted on 07/04/2006 5:00:11 AM PDT by johnny7
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While many Italian-Americans have picked up this way of speaking from their parents and grandparents, I suspect many of them just watch way too much television.Hell... that's how all my moms side of the family spoke... they were mimmicking my granpa... giovanni7. Eh... youz 'wanna sang-a-weech? Go look in 'da frig-a-daire ;)
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:00:13 AM PDT
by
johnny7
To: johnny7
At it's worst, The Sopranos is still arguably the best drama ever produced for TV. And the reason is James Gandolfini. He doesn't act the role, he inhabits the role of Tony Soprano. No actor on earth could do a better job. The show deflated when he was silent, in the hospital bed for a few episodes last season. I had the pleasure of knowing (and working for) John Patterson, who directed many of the episodes, and to whom the final episode of this past year was dedicated, as he passed away in February. John once told me that Gandolfini was born to play that role, it was his destiny. He said it with reverence. And you have to credit the writers and casting director too. It all just comes together in a magical way.
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:25:32 AM PDT
by
veronica
("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
To: johnny7
My parents never dropped the last letter but always used a 'G" sound in place of a "C". I never knew why until I went to Sicily a few times and learned that the "C" sound is difficult for Sicilians to pronounce so they replace it with a "G' sound. My family is of Sicilian origin.
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:36:10 AM PDT
by
Jacvin
To: johnny7
My old Grandpa's pronunciation of 'hamburger': ham-BOY-ga.
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:40:08 AM PDT
by
Jhensy
To: johnny7
I am happy to say I have never seen one episode of that "show".
It sounds like a Godfather wan-a-bee show.
Enough of these NY/NJ shows ... these are other parts of the US to do a show about other than those two miserable cesspit's.
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:49:08 AM PDT
by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDuce = M2HB .50 BMG))
To: johnny7
and...when you say, "pasta", you better fudge the "p" to sound somewhat like a "b". Practice it by saying "bahst-a".
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:52:45 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: johnny7
Sauce or Gravy?
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posted on
07/04/2006 5:53:40 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(The right wants victory, the left wants surrender. It's that simple.)
To: tiredoflaundry
It's Gravy...only when served on Sunday in my wife's family's house
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:07:09 AM PDT
by
harpu
( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
To: harpu
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:11:40 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(The right wants victory, the left wants surrender. It's that simple.)
To: johnny7
In Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley many people still say "sangwich". Axe anybody. And many still say "ice box".
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:13:38 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: johnny7
Nowadays in nearly all of Italy the final vowel is always pronounced, even in the south, thanks to the homogenizing influence of Italian television.
Italians are greatly amused by Americans who say "pro-shoot" and "mana-got" and think they're being authentically Italian.
The one that bothers me most is bruschetta, which is invariably pronounced "broo-shetta." I can't tell you how many times I've said "broo-sketta" (the actual Italian pronunciation) and been gently corrected.
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:17:24 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
To: denydenydeny
Dear denydenydeny,
Well, Italians may be amused, but this is how our grandparents and parents spoke.
If I say "manigott," it isn't because I'm feigning being Italian. It's because that's how my American-born Sicilian father says it, and that's how he learned it from his Sicilian-born father and grandparents. It's because that's how my mother said it, as she learned it from her Sicilian-born mother.
"Nowadays in nearly all of Italy the final vowel is always pronounced, even in the south, thanks to the homogenizing influence of Italian television."
That's kind of interesting. Maybe folks like my father will be the last speakers of the Sicilian dialect.
sitetest
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:22:55 AM PDT
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: Jacvin
My Mom's people are from Abruzzi.. They drop the "A" at the end of Ricotta , supressatta,and "bracciola", the "i" at the end of "manicotti"; and tend to replace the "Cs" with "Gs". And it's "GRAVY", not "SAUCE"
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:36:11 AM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Jacvin
My family was from up north. We never dropped the last letter either.
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:37:39 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
To: MaDuce
I am happy to say I have never seen one episode of that "show". You've missed a very entertaining series.
To: showme_the_Glory
My uncle's father immigrated from Croatia and spoke a combination of Slavic/English that was amusing and endearing. On the 4th of July, he would have the big extended family over for food and wine and play his accordion. He's give a speech on how glad he was to have made it to America, first to copper mines in Upper Michigan, then to southern Iowa.
The family would serve the meals on picnic tables and he was often heard to say he couldn't understand why Americans liked to eat outside and "s**t inside the house--it seemed backward to his way of thinking.
To: johnny7
"Go look in 'da frig-a-daire No, no, the correct terminology is "Go anna look ina da ice-a-box"
I claim100% "Itralian" ancestry, was born in "da Bronex" and learned the language from all the aunts and uncles.
FUHGEDDABOUDITT!!
To: denydenydeny
I can't tell you how many times I've said "broo-sketta" (the actual Italian pronunciation) and been gently correct I never pronoun-a-it...I eata it....
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posted on
07/04/2006 6:53:34 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: MaDuce
"I am happy to say I have never seen one episode of that "show".
It sounds like a Godfather wan-a-bee show.
"
Why are you happy to say that you don't watch some television show? Seems silly to me.
You don't watch "The Sopranos." OK. That's one piece of information about you that I didn't know. I didn't care whether you watched it before, and I don't care that you don't watch it.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:04:20 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: veronica
If you aren't squeamish...go and get the DVD True Romance.
James Gandolfini plays a hit man in a crime family.
The segment where he encounters Patricia Arquette (Medium)in the hotel room is where Tony Soprano was "born".
BTW, True Romance has numerous supporting actors in it that are now big time stars. Check it out.
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posted on
07/04/2006 7:05:18 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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