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Makes sense. But is "incarnadine", meaning the red color of blood, also rooted in carne- flesh? It would seem odd, since flesh and blood are not the same color.
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Oooh, there's a tasty little nit... carn icería Mmmmm, another one... macell eria Note the tiny little nit picked off the last i - tasty! 
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carnicería
macelleria
My bad.
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>But is "incarnadine", meaning the red color of blood, also rooted in carne- flesh? It would seem odd, since flesh and blood are not the same color.
ah, but if one were to look it up, one would discover that incarnadine, properly, means the color of flesh; i.e., carnation or pink. but since Shakespeare misused it in MacBeth, it is often used for bloodred!
"This my Hand will rather The multitudinous Seas incarnadine, Making the Greene, one Red."
(and he verbed the adj/noun!)
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Oooh, ooh, ooooh!
Mallecerìa
Speaking of last ì's
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Uh, Faldaje...
I fear you're too focused on the nits...
Is a mallecería a place where they make things bad?
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Is a mallecería a place where they make things bad?
Geez and a half Louise. Macellerìa. You can see Italian isn't my first language (It's not even my nth language, but we'll let that be.)
Es bleibt dabei, it's macellerìa not macellería.
Harrumph®!
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mallecería Is a mallecería a place where they make things bad?Nah, Hyla, that's where you go because they have free parking but it takes you an hour to find a hat you like . Where did I leave my car again?
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it's macellerìa not macellería
Methinks we need to call in some native speakers. I've lived in Italy on a couple of occasions, but bean and emanuela both have much better Eye-talian than io.
To our italoparlante lasses: Does the butcher's shop get an accent?
And while we're pulling out the polyglottal stops - what's a bleibt dabei?
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