Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Salt Away!!

Permission to salt? Permission granted. Salting. Salt it away in the Adriatic!!

I'm a climber, paha.

What does it mean if Cassiodorus likened houses to aquatic birds? Judging by the paragraph, Dorus just wanted peace, love, and salt. Why couldn't everyone get along? He was the best emperor of salt.

Chioggia produces sali minutti. This will be exceptionally helpful to be able to say during my trip to Italy. It is apparently a fine-grained salt. Because of my desire to converse about salt, i will store this term in my memory bank so i can socialize with locals. I have also gathered the word "maccheroni, " which is one of the probably like a billio words for pasta in Italy. Lasagna is the best invention EVER. I love lasagna. It means "ribbon" in Greek, which makes sense, because I always eat my ribbon with sauce, meat, and cheese. Or possibly means "chamber pot," which makes sense because I always eat my chamber pots with sauce, meat, and cheese. ....this is like exitado or whatever in Spanish. Because it doesn't really mean excited. But i'm not exactly Spanishy, as you might know.

Ranked by their love of salt, Venice is second to China. But Venice and China are basically cousins, so this is not a cowinkydink. Is there a certain spelling for that?

MARCO!

6 comments:

Timmy said...

Holy lots of blogs. you have like over 9000 new ones up here.

Did I say "yins" in my thing? I didn't meant to. I agree that it is not acceptable in typing. But in real life, for us western pennsylvanians, its normal.

If i'm not allowed to say yins, you're not allowed to say "paha." The flip is that? use "baha" at least. i've only ever saw one other person say paha, and she was from alaska.

This comment was almost relevant.

brianna said...

Nice opener, real catchy. I think your Italian knowledge from this book will make you a great hit in Italy. I also think that lasagna is a great thing. Lori you are quite insane when it comes to blogging, but sadly I seem to understand what you have been saying. Great blog.

Corinne said...

Lori you are an insane blogger but you do make it interesting. It’s funny how the work for lasagna means ribbon or chamber pot. I guess they both make sense if one thinks about it. Also when you go to Italy and use some of the words you have learned I wonder what you will get back?

Katie Schumacher said...

your blogs are so much more interesting than mine. I laughed about the chamber pot idea lol....I like lasagna too...The best part of this book is the meanings greek words.

syoung said...

I agree with the whole wanting peace, love, and salt. It would have been great times! Too bad that everyone didn't get alone. Our society would be so much fun. But of course, we would not have fun things like laser tag to shoot people we get angry at. That is a lot of fun. Oh well. Lasagna is one of the greatest inventions. I think I'm going to tell my mother to make it now. I'm very hungry for it. Good bye!

Irish said...

Cassidorous was a Roman senator. Houses would be another word for powerful families or heraldry. As for the connection to aquatic birds I am at a loss.

One cool thing about our trip to Italy is that some of these places and terms will hopefully come back to you when we are there. ex. Venice. So maybe at the moment some of these things, names, places are not relevant, perhaps in time they will be?

Lasagna means ribbon, because that is the shape of the pasta if you ever saw it prior to being cooked. It's edges are rippled.

Again, you tend to be off topic. Maybe you could talk a bit more about Venice, as you will be there in a few months. Instead you seem to ramble about how China and Venice are 'cousins'. I'm not sure you understood the purpose of making these journal entries.

Mr. Farrell