Nick Against the World (52 Viewers)

Dec 27, 2003
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having a hard time understanding it. i am sure it is quite funny
I have trouble too in fact. I guess it means that the "compare" should forget the aristocrats from the castle and mix with people of the same social class as him. It's really a saying indeed and not a joke. But said in a Sicilian dialect it has a funny ring to it.
 
Jan 7, 2004
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++ [ originally posted by Kaiser Franco ] ++


I have trouble too in fact. I guess it means that the "compare" should forget the aristocrats from the castle and mix with people of the same social class as him. It's really a saying indeed and not a joke. But said in a Sicilian dialect it has a funny ring to it.
not very familiar with the dialect
 
Dec 27, 2003
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++ [ originally posted by Don Bes ] ++


dont go there.

but you can argue something like that.
Yeah I realize it's a bit awkward to say that. In fact it comes from that Oscar-winning movie called "Mediterraneo" where this Turkish opium dealer arrives on a Greek island occupied by the Italians during WW 2. He shouts : "Italiani, Turchi : una faccia, una razza". Then he makes them smoke opium and steals their weapons, money and food while they are asleep.
 
Sep 28, 2002
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++ [ originally posted by Kaiser Franco ] ++


Lithuanian belongs to that atypical finno-ugric family of languages, right?
no, we belong to baltic family. only 2 of those remaining, us and latvians.

does finno-ugric belong to indo-european group?

damn, need to look back into history books :D

edit. ok, not "we", "our language" actually
 
Jan 7, 2004
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++ [ originally posted by Kaiser Franco ] ++


Yeah I realize it's a bit awkward to say that. In fact it comes from that Oscar-winning movie called "Mediterraneo" where this Turkish opium dealer arrives on a Greek island occupied by the Italians during WW 2. He shouts : "Italiani, Turchi : una faccia, una razza". Then he makes them smoke opium and steals their weapons, money and food while they are asleep.


was that a hollywood movie :D
 
Dec 27, 2003
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no, we belong to baltic family. only 2 of those remaining, us and latvians.

does finno-ugric belong to indo-european group?

damn, need to look back into history books :D
No Finno-ugric is a pretty weird family. Finnish and Hungarian belong to it despite being hundreds of miles apart and they form a separate category from Indo-European languages. So maybe it's the Estonians who fall into the same category.
 

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