Teaching Myself Italian

I love this language. I love the way it sounds. The way it flows. Most vitally, I love the body language and gestures used with Italian. It's the perfect "animated language" for an actor!

That said, I don't care about spelling. I'm going all phonetic with phrases I learn

• Pee a cherrrray de • Conocherrr tee ( Piacere di conoscerti ) -- Pleased to Meet You.
• Mee keee ammmo John = My Name is John.

Urban & British Phrases

Great Urban Dictionary Phrases I Like

1. PMS -- A powerful spell that women are put under about once every month, which gives them the strength of an ox, the stability of a Window's OS, and the scream of a banshee. Basically, man's worst nightmare."OMFG! SHE HAS PMS!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! *explosions and screams*"
2. Box lock -- female version of a cock block
3. Game or Lame
4. Robocracy -- government run by robots.
5. CRS -- can't remember shit.
6. Reverse telecommuniting -- bringing a book or playing games at work.
7. DILLIGAF -- "Does it look like I give a fuck?"
8. California Car Pool
9. 400 calories -- making out for 20 minutes!
   
   Usage. If you CRS you could chose lame in going game or lame and end up back in a Robocracy full of people who typically reverse telecommute. DILLIGAF about someone's reading they want to do at work? No! They should do their job!.
   

Great Lines From Movies

1. I have to go return some tapes. (American Psycho)
2. Are you taking any prescription medication? (Rain man)
3. "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." (Dr. Strangelove).
4. "You think every morning I wake up, look in the mirror and say "Gee I'm glad I'm me and not some 19-year-old billionaire rockstar with the body of an athelete and a 24-hour erection!" No I don't! So just excuse the shit outof me! " (The Ref, Weiss).

Great British Phrases

Snog -- kiss (a more loving, saliva kiss) or 400 calories
smack -- a kiss like, "give us a smack, toots".
Shag -- fuck
Cheerio
petrol - gas
"said" blank -- That tv is funny. Said tv is definitely funny.
"Chips" --> "Fries"
"Biscuit" --> "Cookie"
"Lemonade" --> "Sprite" or "7-Up" (American lemonade has no carbonation)
"Plaits" --> "Braids"
"Braces" --> "Suspenders"
Doctor's Surgery -- Doctor's Office
blinkers -- turn signals
wheelie bins -- garbage cans (three kinds, black (smelly), green (recycling), brown (soil and shrubs)
hooter -- south african (honk horn)
gob -- mouth; gobby -- talky; like "she's a gobby cow" she's a non-stop annoying talker
telly, box, tube - tv
blokes and birds -- guys and girls

I was sitting around with my blokes and birds watching the telly. I was recuperating after visiting the doctor's surgery. Jenny had gotten her plaits caught in her braces and had to get them removed. We tried to turn on all the blinkers while driving to the doctor's surgery, but we hit some wheelie bins and kept hitting our hooter. Jenny was gobby as hell, we were low on petrol, and it was hectic. I was starving and just wanted chips, a lemonade, and some biscuits, but we got there on time and I gave Jenny a snog.


confound the man
balderdash
bollocks
blooming
botch
bob's your uncle -and that's it
bender -pub crawl
cheers -good bye/thanks
Cheerio -good bye
codswallop -baloney
cor
gutted - really upset
pip pip --outdated; goodbye
smashing -- terrific
twat -- an insult for someone who has upset you
take a mickey -- take a piss
tosser or wanker -- jerk

Confound the man! Balderdash I say. The bender botched my schedule and bob's your uncle. I had to take a mickey and didn't want to be a wanker and was really gutted when I couldn't find the leiu. Well cheerio, smashing good time.

London Cockney Rhyming Slang

1. Loaf -- loaf of bread -- head
2. jam -- jam jar -- car
3. China -- china plate -- mate
4. brass -- brass tacks -- facts
5. Up the apples and pears -- up the stairs
6. adam -- adam and eve -- believe
7. sixes and sevens -- messed up, crazy
8. butcher -- butcher's hook -- look
9. dog -- dog and bone -- phone
10. bubble -- bubble bath -- laugh
11. dig -- dig in the grave -- shave
12. battle -- battle cruiser -- boozer "we had a pint at the local battle cruiser"
13. pigs ear -- beer
14. cream crackered -- knackered -- hung over
15. whistle and flute -- suit
16. pot & pan -- man
17. north -- north and south -- mouth
18. gay -- gay and friskey -- whiskey
19. mince pies -- eyes
20. trouble -- trouble and strife -- wife
21. boat race -- face
    

After the doctor's surgery, Jenny had a scar on her boat race and I needed a dig in the grave to clean up. Adam and eve me, you do not want to go fast in your jam when your loaf is focused on an emergency; it's all sixes and sevens and difficult to keep butchering at the road! We all had a gay and friskey afterward, but I had spilled something on my whistle. My mince pies ached, but after a few pigs ears (but not too much to avoid getting cream crackered), Joe joked about his trouble and strife, and we all celebrated a good bubble before going up the apples and pears to bed. But, wait! I still had to use the dog and bone becauase I left that one pot and pan back at the battle cruiser! I called my good china, jumped in the jam, arrived at the battle cruiser, took a butcher around, spotted my good china plate, and drove back home. We had a good bubble about the whole evening!

Great Sales Lines
"We want this to be a good fit for you." (we don't want to sell you something that isn't congruent with where you're heading and where you want to go).

When Language Gets Sixes and Sevens

You have to really use your loaf or bread to speak cockney rhyming slang. I mean most people think driving their jam jar while talking to your china plate on the dog and bone is juggling, but cockney rhyming slang is more challenging than that, my dear china plate. Take a butcher's hook at the history and you'll discover that it was used to confuse non-locals or to create an inner communication to prevents others from knowing of what they're talking. Just look at the brass tacks, china plate, and do adam and eve me; it's all sixes and sevens hearing cockney rhyming slang, unless you know the interpretations, so here are some translations. A start :

1. Loaf of bread = head.

Now use your loaf!

Latin Alumni Re-Visit

Well, I'm in chicago right now. I stopped by latin today to see thomas's game and some old profs. Very productive:

1. --Did some British voices with fript
2. --Told professor Stevens (who led the mammoth cave spelunking project week trip) about how lured them into a non-dry county to buy alcohol the final night of the project week!
3. --Gave Ms. Doer a hug and caught up with her hustle-bustle study session trying to cope with all the Nazi mind trials going on. She's always juggling so many different academic projects, it's hysterical, but you gotta love it. As my grandmother would say, "She's a kick".
4. --Saw Ms. Hardtegan and reminisced about all of the play and theatrical happenings, and how she "knew me" when she recommended the Marquis de Sade monologue.
5. --Reminisced with Coach Bauer about his die-hard qualitative soccer instruction and leadership. He's still totally on top of his game as athletic director. I forgot how impossible to read that guy is, not because of being opaque, but because he is such a solid character.
6. --Saw Cronister. He seemed to be juggling a lot, and I think is still headmastering. Still doing the community service with Lombardo, which is definitely grand and solid. I shared my interest in working with youth (creativity and imagination) and elderly (wisdom and experience).
7. --Had a pre-game talk with Vandermulen. The guy is still totally holding his own and is by far the most intense highschool Varsity coach, easily, in all of the ISL!
8. --Met Mr. Faderlay, who, I informed, looked a lot like Greg Baker (without the Wheel Chair, of course!), and also reminded me of the "Blindness and Insight" english prof I had at Colorado College. Definitely a VERY intelligent dude.
9. --Also, saw a few janitors that I knew and spoke spanish with back in the day. An old chemistry professor prowling around. The Greg Baker pool. Dr. Nguyen's old desk and Dr. Periera's vacant desk. Left a note for that dude. And thomas's friends Shreve and Aaron.
10. --The JV is awesome this year and Coney and Mulrain and Noah on Varsity are amazingly brilliant defensemen, offensive players, and shooters. The whole school is such an amazing place, I realize. Almost nearly to an overwhelming degree, I forgot how much of a connective epicenter that place was.

Yeah, it was the epitome of a productive "return visit" to latin. I am always shocked at how quality of a school it is! Solid -- totally, outrageously quality and so high-tech with that mothership command center at the entrance, but then it has an exceptional arts, athletic, theatre, science, and humanities program, too. Any direction you turn there, you're meant with great minds and instruction.

I'm definitely on fire, though, this is definitely a seriously connected time.