{"id":2837,"date":"2015-05-04T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.it\/articoli\/?p=515"},"modified":"2015-05-04T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T06:00:38","slug":"roman-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scuolaromit.com\/en\/roman-dialect\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian and Roman dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking through the city, hanging out in bars and restaurants, shopping at the supermarket, talking to people, you will have surely noticed how standard Italian in Rome is accompanied by the Roman dialect very frequently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essentially, everyone, sooner or later, will let a few words in \u201cRoman\u201d slip out<\/strong>! If you are already getting to know Italian quite well, you will probably understand most of the words that are said or, at least, you will have a pretty good idea, as Roman one is among the most comprehensible dialects in Italy, because the sentence structure remains essentially the same as in literal Italian and only the words change (you were lucky!).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/marchese-del-grillo.jpg\" alt=\"Alberto Sordi\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-444\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberto Sordi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever seen (and understood) a movie with <strong>Alberto Sordi<\/strong>, with <strong>Carlo Verdone<\/strong> or with <strong>Gigi Proietti<\/strong>? These are examples of great comedy and verve in the Roman dialect.<\/p>\n<p>Some words, expressions and idioms are in fact hilarious &#8211; sometimes very colourful &#8211; and typical of the good nature and straightforwardness of the Romans. Among the great figures of literature <strong>Gioacchino Belli<\/strong> and <strong>Trilussa<\/strong>, with their poems in the authentic dialect, are not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>You will have already noticed that <strong>the Roman dialect is characterized mostly by elisions (or apocopation) in nouns and verbs<\/strong>, by the doubling of consonants, by a poor use of verb tenses and the weakening of the double \u201cr\u201d. \u201cChe stai a ffa\u2019?\u201d instead of \u201ccosa stai facendo?\u201d (What are you doing?), \u201cVoglio dormi\u2019 \u201d rather than Voglio dormire\u201d (I want to sleep), \u201coggi sono libbero\u201d (today I am free), \u201c \u2019sta pasta \u00e8 proprio bbona\u201d instead of \u201cquesta pasta \u00e8 molto buona\u201d (this pasta is very good), \u201d, \u201cDevo fa\u2019 quarche ccosa\u201d instead of \u201cdevo fare qualche cosa\u201d, \u201cho fatto un erore\u201d, \u201cce so\u2019 cascato in pieno\u201d as opposed to \u201cci sono caduto in pieno\u201d (I was really fooled), \u201cstavo a scherza\u2019 \u2019\u201d instead of \u201cstavo scherzando\u201d (I was joking), \u201cgnaa faccio\u201d rather than \u201cnon ce la faccio\u201d (I can\u2019t do it) and so on. You will have no doubt already heard many of those.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_445\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Giuseppe_Gioachino_Belli-550x680.jpg\" alt=\"Giuseppe Gioachino Belli\" width=\"550\" height=\"680\" class=\"size-large wp-image-445\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giuseppe Gioachino Belli<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Shall we to talk about the Roman ways of saying<\/strong>? There is an infinite number of expresions and some are real pearls, funny creations and worthy of note, some used very often and others less. Knowing a few can be useful as a note of folklore and also to feel comfortable in a conversation between true Romans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>\u201cM\u2019\u00e8 preso un abbiocco\u201d<\/strong> (I was caught by sleepiness): is an expression used to express the drowsiness after eating, especially after lunch, that leads to a nap.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>\u201cTi ho preso cor sorcio in bocca\u201d<\/strong> (I caught you with a mouse in your mouth): is used to express catching someone red handed, intent on doing something they should not.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>\u201cMe sto a mor\u00ec de pizzichi\u201d<\/strong> (I am a dying of pinches): it means being bored to death, being in a situation without incentives and without interest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Consolarsi con l\u2019ajetto&#8221;<\/strong> (to console oneself with garlic): resort to not very effective solutions to address a disappointment or a problem, such as treating a disease using garlic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cVoglia de lavora\u2019 sartame addosso\u201d<\/strong> (Desire to work, jump on me): is an expression used when a person does not have the slightest desire to work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Essere anticaja e petrella\/essere dell\u2019epoca di Checco e Nina&#8221;<\/strong> (Being junk and pebbles\/being from the era of Checco and Nina: expression used to indicate something or someone very old and out-dated, belonging to an undefined ancient time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You could write a book on the idioms of the Roman dialect, there are so many, each with its own peculiarity and its funny side. For a more in-depth analysis you just need to go around the city to the more working-class neighbourhoods and stop to talk to some older person, <strong>you&#8217;ll discover a whole world<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking through the city, hanging out in bars and  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italian-language"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Italian and Roman dialect &#8211; Scuola Romit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scuolaromit.com\/en\/roman-dialect\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian and Roman dialect &#8211; 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