Sunday, March 20, 2005

Nice Days

Belle giornate

I'm still working too damn hard (sto ancora lavorando come un disgraziato), but at least Saturday has been nice and warm - even bloody hot (c'era un caldo della Madonna), to tell the truth. Only the sorry bitches (stronze rompiballe) upstairs spoiled the fun with their fucking wild parties (fottute feste). They can stick their birthdays up their ass (si possono mettere i loro compleanni nel culo). Nothing noteworthy on Sunday. Stay tuned.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Shit

Merda

Fucking hell, today I broke a milling machine cutter: it was a small one, 1/8" [can't you use the fraggin' metric system, 3 mm? (Non potete usare il dannato sistema metrico, 3mm?)]
I'm tired like hell, I'm half pissed with just a pint of strong lager. Crap. (Sono stanco come una bestia, sono mezzo pieno con solo una pinta di birra... che palle).

And what the fuck can I eat for dinner? (E che cazzo posso mangiare per cena?)

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Italian Swearing 101

This is also posted on the Root Blog.

I continue to get referrals from search engines of people searching for things like "fuck off italian version". I don't think they want to insult this blog, so I suppose they want to learn Italian swear words.

Well, in the optic of giving to my readers the service they request, I'll provide a quick guide to Italian swearing.

Fuck Off and variants are equivalent to Vaffanculo (the last u is pronounced as "oo") - this word is a bit hard to pronounce for English people. It has no literal meaning; sometimes is also used as interjection or expletive. Variations are 'fanculo, 'affanculo, va'nculo and others. Vaffanculo is the very Italian expression, but also fottiti has a rather widespread use.

Shit --> Merda

Fucking is equivalent to Fottuto/a, but other expressions with the same meaning are di merda, del cazzo.

Son of a Bitch is expressed with Figlio di Puttana, but while especially Americans use it quite frequently, Italians most of the times mean it, when thay say it.

Bastard --> Bastardo (That's easy)

Motherfucker and variants have no exact equivalent in Italian. The gravity or rudeness of the insult is increased by adding adjectives or prefixes: stra-fottuto, brutto figlio di puttana.

Stronzo/a literally means Turd, Piece of Shit, but it's also used to indicate mean, dishonest, cheating persons. Stronzate/a means Bullshit, as Cazzate/a does. Fare una Cazzata/Stronzata is used as Fuck Up/ Screw Up.

Bitch/Slut/Whore --> Troia(Stronza)/Puttana/Maiala (Italian words ending with -a are most often feminine)

Cazzo is probably the most frequent swear word used in Italian. Its literal meaning is Cock, Dick, but it has a wide variety of uses: as Fucking or Fuck, to make a sentence more rude: Che Cazzo fai? instead of the normal Cosa fai? (What the fuck are you doing?/What are you doing?); Non capisci un Cazzo (You're dumb as fucking plank); Non ho visto un Cazzo (I did not see a fuck) etc. It is also used as interjection (that is pretty rude) or expletive.

Fucking Hell and derivatives --> Porca Troia/Puttana/Maiala. If you want to add empasis, just make a chain: Porca puttana troia lurida (Dirty) fottuta.

Ok, this is just a brief and disorganized glimpse into the swearing richness of Italian language. More will come, sure as hell.

Got here, you fucker?

Sei arrivato qui, cazzone?

This blog is a spin-off of a more serious and famous blog. FANCULO (fuck you) will be exclusively dedicated to Italian swearing, bad language, cursing, cussing, insults and profanity.

It will not be updated regularly, and it will be kept minimal, minimalistic, got it you suckers? (coglioni - that means bollocks too). It will be not very safe for work, neither recommended for children. Fucking love it or leave it (prendere o lasciare, cazzo!).