Discussioni:cippi
Agghiunci n'argumenturef cheapi[cancia]
Blood Type: Ragu is a hilarious and heartfelt look at growing up Italian in Brooklyn. The son of Sicilian immigrant parents, writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta brings wit and wisdom to the stage in this one-man show. The show is peppered with terms in Sicilian and “Bastardized English,” which are defined in a handy playbill dictionary and on stage to great comedic effect. From funny expressions like “allu cheapi storu” (at the cheap store)
Fonti: http://www.showbusinessweekly.com/archive/530/the_blood.shtml
ref cippe[cancia]
To get an idea of the adaptation mechanisms involved in loanword nativization, consider the common Italo Canadian words carro "car" (Standard Italian automobile or macchina) and squisare "to squeeze" (Standard Italian premere). In the case of carro the following processes have occurred: the English vowel represented by a is replaced by the Italian vowel closest to it in articulation; a final vowel is added to the word which gives it a grammatical gender (in this case masculine); and ther between vowels is doubled in conformity with a predictable phonological feature of Italian. In the case of squisare, the -are ending assigns the verb to the first conjugation, the most regular of all Italian verbal paradigms, and the remaining sounds are restructured according to native pronunciation patterns. Obviously, these processes will vary in accordance to the actual dialect or variant spoken; but they do characterize "canonical" processes in the generalized ethnolect. The following chart illustrates a few common English words that have been nativized into the most general Italo Canadian form:
Standard Borrowed Word; Nativized Form; Italian Equivalent
- store; storo; negozio
- sink; sinco; lavandino/acquaio
- cake; checca; torta
- mortgage; morgheggio; ipoteca/mutuo
- fence; fenza; recinto
- ticket; ticchetta; biglietto
- to push; pusciare; spingere
- to paint; pintare; verniciare
- to freeze; frisare; congelare
- smart; smarto; intelligente
- cheap; cippe; economico
Fonti: http://www.tgmag.ca/Magic/mt84.html
ref zippa (laz) - zippu (cal)[cancia]
The Languages of Italian Canadians - J Vizmuller-Zocco - 1995
ety, since, for example, "fridge," "sink," "cheap" can be heard as. /fredz:a/, /sinka/, /tsippa/ in Ciociaro and /frid2:i/frids:u/,. /singu/, /tsippu/ in Calabrese.