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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