minestrone

[SatCam]

I went out to eat with a friend of mine some time back and I ordered "minestronee" soup and the waitress said "Ok, minestrone(silent e)". Then my friend continued to make fun of my mispronunciation of the word minestrone because it somehow now has a silent e. I say you pronounce the e and that my friend is a poor excuse for an italian. He says the e is silent that that I shouldnt be talking because I am as pale as snow.

Who is right??????????????????????????????????????

[SatCam]

and assuming I know what i am talking about, why the fuck do people pronounce it with a silent e


thank you in advance

[A.J.]

Proper Italian pronunciation would be "Meen-eh-STRO-nay".

[Chigworthy]

It's like Brian Regan's bit on his Italian friend that over-pronounces italian words to sound cool. Out here on the west coast, we have a lot of spanish place-names like San Francisco and Los Angeles. All the white-guilt ridden reporters started pronouncing them in Spanish in the last decade or so. It sounds so stupid and jarring to hear a plain-old milquetoast California-accented sentence interupted with a really thick spanish word, then revert back. It gives me a giggle or two.

P.S.: Is "gobbagool" actually coppacola?

[mendyweiss]

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I would like to thank Mr. CorleON for his generosity

[RAAMONE]

P.S.: Is "gobbagool" actually coppacola?

i think its funny that when people impersonate an italian all they seem to be able to talk about is cured meats

[King Hippos Bandaid]

eye talians are nuts about pronouncing their foods right


in front of my wife's family

Cal a Mari = galamod

Ric Cotta = rigut

Mot za rella = muzzarell

they get pissed if you say it wrong

[Chigworthy]

Besides an occasional Serrano ham, I think the italians have cured meat all sewn up.

[buzzard]

I just ask for wop-food..they get it,I eat it.

[Chigworthy]

I just ask for wop-food..they get it,I eat it.

Yeah, after they dip their sausige in it.

[jauble]

I s roll the r more men - eh strrrrrron - eh

[thejives]

I s roll the r more men - eh strrrrrron - eh

Yeah, and put on a fake thick black mustache and a chef's hat before you order.

[TooLowBrow]

Yeah, and put on a fake thick black mustache and a chef's hat before you order.

just like mama!

[ralphbxny]

Who cares how you said it...was the soup any good?

[thejives]

Who cares how you said it...was the soup any good?

Probably not.
When you order it wrong they pee in it.

[Chigworthy]

The italian joint I worked at had regionally famous minestrone. It was where all the leftovers rejoined the profit margin.

[SatCam]

Who cares how you said it...was the soup any good?

I dont even remember where the fuck I was. I just remember my friend is a douchebag

[Judge Smails]

eye talians are nuts about pronouncing their foods right

in front of my wife's family

Cal a Mari = galamod

Ric Cotta = rigut

Mot za rella = muzzarell

they get pissed if you say it wrong

This is one of my biggest fucking pet peaves ever. My parents are right off the boat Italians, and when I was growing up we spoke only Italian around the house. Now, my folks are far from upper class, hoity toity, but they taught me to speak proper Italian and what you've listed here is some hayseed equiavalent, backwoods American-bastardized Italian that many of my friends speak. They make fun of me for my pronunciation and refuse to accept that I'm the one actually saying it correctly.

For the record: Italian is a very literal language. For the most part, there is no silent letter bullshit like in English. Words are usually pronounced just like they're spelled. Hence:

calamari = ca-la-mar-ee
ricotta = ree-cot-a
mozarella = moz-a-rel-a
miestrone = min-es-stron-ay

Tell your wife's family what I tell my friends: You're all a bunch of filthy hayseed pig-fuckers who don't know how to speak your own language.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

This is one of my biggest fucking pet peaves ever. My parents are right off the boat Italians, and when I was growing up we spoke only Italian around the house. Now, my folks are far from upper class, hoity toity, but they taught me to speak proper Italian and what you've listed here is some hayseed equiavalent, backwoods American-bastardized Italian that many of my friends speak. They make fun of me for my pronunciation and refuse to accept that I'm the one actually saying it correctly.

For the record: Italian is a very literal language. For the most part, there is no silent letter bullshit like in English. Words are usually pronounced just like they're spelled. Hence:

calamari = ca-la-mar-ee
ricotta = ree-cot-a
mozarella = moz-a-rel-a
miestrone = min-es-stron-ay

Tell your wife's family what I tell my friends: You're all a bunch of filthy hayseed pig-fuckers who don't know how to speak your own language.


:lol: I should

its more Brooklynese then Italian in my opinion

[Chigworthy]

You're all a bunch of filthy hayseed pig-fuckers who don't know how to speak your own language.

They've been mispelling miestrone all this time, too?

[TooLowBrow]

This is one of my biggest fucking pet peaves ever. My parents are right off the boat Italians, and when I was growing up we spoke only Italian around the house. Now, my folks are far from upper class, hoity toity, but they taught me to speak proper Italian and what you've listed here is some hayseed equiavalent, backwoods American-bastardized Italian that many of my friends speak. They make fun of me for my pronunciation and refuse to accept that I'm the one actually saying it correctly.

For the record: Italian is a very literal language. For the most part, there is no silent letter bullshit like in English. Words are usually pronounced just like they're spelled. Hence:

calamari = ca-la-mar-ee
ricotta = ree-cot-a
mozarella = moz-a-rel-a
miestrone = min-es-stron-ay

Tell your wife's family what I tell my friends: You're all a bunch of filthy hayseed pig-fuckers who don't know how to speak your own language.

is it a difference in italian dialects?
maybe one pronunciation is northern italian
and the other is more african influenced

(saint louis - san loo)

[thejives]

Tell your wife's family what I tell my friends: You're all a bunch of filthy hayseed pig-fuckers who don't know how to speak your own language.

But aren't all Italians bloodthirsty mobsters who will kill you if you say that? :huh:

[Judge Smails]

is it a difference in italian dialects?
maybe one pronunciation is northern italian
and the other is more african influenced

For a relatively small nation Italy has always, historically been famous for the shear number of regional dialects that it has. But still there is one proper way to speak it. If I speak with a NY accent and say "I'm gonna go to da store" or with a Boston accent and say "Pock de ker" that doesn't make it right.

I've got an aunt who's from Scicily and for the life of me I can't understand a word she says to me even though she's "speaking" Italian.

[Chigworthy]

Must be the Moors.

[TheMojoPin]

Dammit, I thought Monsterone was back.

[Judge Smails]

Must be the Moors.


Sorry, that's the Moops.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

CCC Original Thought #34: That soup has the texture and look of vomit. I don't like soup that reminds me of somebody else's regurgitated lunch.

[TooLowBrow]

I've got an aunt who's from Scicily and for the life of me I can't understand a word she says to me even though she's "speaking" Italian.

problem solved?

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

This is one of my biggest fucking pet peaves ever. My parents are right off the boat Italians, and when I was growing up we spoke only Italian around the house. Now, my folks are far from upper class, hoity toity, but they taught me to speak proper Italian and what you've listed here is some hayseed equiavalent, backwoods American-bastardized Italian that many of my friends speak. They make fun of me for my pronunciation and refuse to accept that I'm the one actually saying it correctly.

For the record: Italian is a very literal language. For the most part, there is no silent letter bullshit like in English. Words are usually pronounced just like they're spelled. Hence:

calamari = ca-la-mar-ee
ricotta = ree-cot-a
mozarella = moz-a-rel-a
miestrone = min-es-stron-ay

Tell your wife's family what I tell my friends: You're all a bunch of filthy hayseed pig-fuckers who don't know how to speak your own language.

I never understood this. One of my best friend's parents are off-the-boat Italian and all the time I've known her (or her parents) I never heard this so-called correct pronunciation of Italian foods. I even asked her about it and she said her family doesn't talk like that.

And that Brian Regan bit is the best. :laugh: