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#53498 01/23/02 09:52 PM
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May one beg you bestow plenary indulgence, CK?

Yeah, just so long as everyone who wants one also buys one of these here vacuum-sealed plastic-wrapped relic packs of Christ's finger bones, ten to the set. You get one free with every twenty indulgences you buy at 1d each. If you want specially worded indulgences (e.g. "may your ears turn into assholes and shit on your shoulders"), then the price is 1½d. Take advantage of this free offer for these gen-u-wine ancient relics. They won't last!



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Definitely means out in the open air.

'plenn-AYRE', it is Cara. BUT, it does seem a little difficult to pronounce it that way when speaking in English. I imagine that is why people would pronounce it Plain air.

The same type of thing happens with cirque (as in Cirque du Soleil). The CI is supposed to be pronounced like the SI in SIT but it is most often pronounced like the CI in CIRCLE.



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In the days left this week, I'm wondering if Anu will use macaroni and note its use as a generic word (among southern Italians) for pasta, in Yankee Doodle and, in adjectival form, to describe a composition written in Latin and vernacular.


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Perhaps you can enjoy this Italian colloquial name for prison:
gattabuia = dark ( without light) (female) cat .


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I think the example of Today's Word about "condottieres" meaning Pakistanis fighting in Kashmir is not really appropriate. The Pakistanis believe deeply in the cause for which they are fighting. The condottieres typically fought only for pay. Incidentally one of the most successful and most vicious of them was an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood.

http://www.telepath.com/hawkwood/hawkwood.htm


#53503 01/25/02 03:15 PM
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Akin to this week's theme, here are some Italian adages. I know we've done something like this before; sorry if I repeat any.

A closed mouth catches no flies
Trouble rides a fast horse
When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners
Better give a penny then lend twenty
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it
If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him

and one which is also common in English:

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me


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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it

I don't get the salt reference.



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con sel? and you a seller in the market place, I'm shocked!


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Ah what sadness is this...pouring salt on the wounds of my ignorance Monsieur maverick.



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darn, I coulda said I was shaken! but no, sweet thing, I would never presume to rub other than balm in your wounds [/kiss]


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