American words you HAVE adopted
Aug 23rd 2011, 3:09 am
#226
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
I hope you're not telling me that words like hospitaliano are normal .... just like bruschetta is pronounced without the K sound in the middle and risotto is a riz-oat-oh but not a risotto!
AMERICANS TAKE NOTE
BRUSCJHETTA IS prounouced BRUSKETTA
RISOTTO is : RIZ-OTT-OH
GNOCCHI is NOT know- ki but NOK_KI
AMERICANS TAKE NOTE
BRUSCJHETTA IS prounouced BRUSKETTA
RISOTTO is : RIZ-OTT-OH
GNOCCHI is NOT know- ki but NOK_KI
Aug 23rd 2011, 3:40 am
#227
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
But the bruschetta, I've been guilty of the soft sch middle.
Oh, one one I've adopted, only when in Mass...and only if I get asked about drinks before anyone else...."wadder"....or we have a 10 minute conversion about water, in which case I say I'll have nothing, wait for someone else to get a water and then mention that I'm changing my mind and ask for one of those...
Never had that problem living up in Maine and it's not a problem everywhere in MA, but it has been a problem more than not, especially getting closer to down town.
Aug 23rd 2011, 4:18 am
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
None. After 4 years I refuse to say soccer/'kinda'/'I guess' etc. although my english colleagues who have been here 5 minutes take out 'trash' from the 'g'raaaj' - just sounds like theyre showing off to me
Aug 23rd 2011, 8:42 am
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
Oh God! Sorry for last night's rant everyone.
I hadn't slept for two nights due to mad temperatures of 38°C so I had a plan last night to get drunk and finally sleep/pass out.
The plan worked until 8am this morning when youngest kid shook me awake and was rudely told to bugger off and, yes, he could have ice-cream for breakfast or anything at all in the fridge or freezer because I didn't care.
Went right back to sleep again for another hour or so.
Feel like having a bruschetta now with loads of garlic and tomato and mozzarella to soak up last night's drink, but it's too bleeding hot to make anything.
Might have ice-cream myself
I hadn't slept for two nights due to mad temperatures of 38°C so I had a plan last night to get drunk and finally sleep/pass out.
The plan worked until 8am this morning when youngest kid shook me awake and was rudely told to bugger off and, yes, he could have ice-cream for breakfast or anything at all in the fridge or freezer because I didn't care.
Went right back to sleep again for another hour or so.
Feel like having a bruschetta now with loads of garlic and tomato and mozzarella to soak up last night's drink, but it's too bleeding hot to make anything.
Might have ice-cream myself
Aug 23rd 2011, 8:47 am
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Aug 23rd 2011, 10:55 am
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
I have the worst sleep habits since I have been here. It is now 5:50, I have not slept all night and in 15 minutes I will be in a taxi on my way to teach a class from 7 to 9.
Then a class from 2 to 4 and then from 8 to 10. I'll nap for a few hours before the 2pm class, then a few more before the 8pm class, then get home at about 10:30 and be up until 3 or 4. 
Saturdays are a bugger, no sleep all night and classes from 9 until 1. How I stay alert and animated, I have no clue. I guess that I just like what I do, so I'm switched on for the time I need to be, and then crash later.
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Aug 23rd 2011, 12:46 pm
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
Talking about pronunciation of foreign words, how about the artist Van Gogh. I understand the ignorant Dutch say it completely differently from either standard British OR American pronunciation..
Aug 23rd 2011, 2:40 pm
#235
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
Too right ... I mind less about FoKacha and CHAbatta because it's still fairly new-
I still hate RiZ-Oat- oh and I detest Brushetta instead of BrusKETTA:
And all these so called Italo- Americans are SO SO SO proud of their heritage and roots and so forth ......
1. Get the ****ing accent right.
2. Stop prentending you are all in the Sopranos
3. Speak Italian properly.
4. You are not Mafia and you'll never be.
5- Stop pretending all Italo-Americans have to be loud and talk loud and be loud because real Italians are not like that.
I still hate RiZ-Oat- oh and I detest Brushetta instead of BrusKETTA:
And all these so called Italo- Americans are SO SO SO proud of their heritage and roots and so forth ......
1. Get the ****ing accent right.
2. Stop prentending you are all in the Sopranos
3. Speak Italian properly.
4. You are not Mafia and you'll never be.
5- Stop pretending all Italo-Americans have to be loud and talk loud and be loud because real Italians are not like that.
Stop watching Jershey Shore and then taking it out on the rest of us.
Aug 23rd 2011, 2:50 pm
#236
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
Just out of curiosity, which copied which, Jersey Shore copied The Only Way Is Essex or vice versa?
Aug 23rd 2011, 3:05 pm
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Re: American words you HAVE adopted
Jersey Shore was first, had not heard of TOWIE until you mentioned it and I googled it.
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Aug 23rd 2011, 3:07 pm
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