[lit-ideas] Inglese Italianato, Diavolo Incarnato
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:21:32 -0500 (EST)
--- by which logic, perhaps, the converse -- an Englished Italian should
be some sort of an angel
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Un italiano inglesato
È un angelo consacrato.
In a message dated 2/2/2013 11:08:52 P.M. UTC-02, profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx
writes in "Re: Afternoon song"
they're not merely referring to the Englishness of the English, but their
devilry.
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which is their italianità?
Un inglese italianato
È un diavolo incarnato
Oddly, and back to R. Paul's original ditty, I was amused to learn at the
Oxford Centre for Great War Studies of the slightly scatological parody:
Rule Britannia,
Marmalade or jam,
Chinese firecrackers up your *rs*hole
Bam bam bam.
-- or something.
which I hardly see as _Italian_ *yet* devilish.
Cheers,
Speranza
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