To: NYer
"Make
what?"
Anybody speak Neapolitan around here?
5 posted on
09/19/2007 6:29:42 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
The best way to learn Neapolitan fast is to be present in the cathedral when the blood is slow to liquefy ... or worse, fails to do so. What you will learn are things you never heard in a church before. And things you never heard addressed to a dead saint.
Neapolitan is a pungent and juicy tongue, with its own literature, theatre, and movies. Sort of Italy's answer to Yiddish.
Great town, South Philly on horse steroids.
11 posted on
09/19/2007 10:59:57 AM PDT by
Kenny Bunk
( Teddy K's 'Immigration Reform Act' of 1965. ¡Grácias, Borracho!)
To: AnAmericanMother; NYer
Anybody speak Neapolitan around here? I ne songo Napuletan'! I songo Ciociar'!*
I think "faccia ngialluta" means "yellow-faced", but it probably has some much worse connotation that I don't know. :)
This thread seems to be calling out for me to post the words to Dduje' Paravise.
13 posted on
09/20/2007 6:33:58 AM PDT by
Claud
(*: I'm not Napoletano, I'm from the Ciociaro region.)
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