Sfacim!
Vaska
vaska at geocities.com
Tue Jul 22 18:52:33 CDT 1997
RR wrote:
>rough translation: ah, shit, real weary-like. based upon certain
>dialects that my familia speaketh. my web guru says it all the time but
>he's calabrese. gotta watch those dialects--could drop ya in a heat of
>trouble mighty quick...
Just got back from my Calabrese grocer, and no kidding, you gotta watch
those dialects all right. He roared his head of, then said: "Well, depends
where you're from. My village, it's like "oh, what a fuck-up," but it's OK
if a guy says it." Hadn't heard of "sfacimento," though.
Vaska
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