jmcquown wrote:
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
>> "jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Pandora wrote:
>>
>>(snippage)
>>
>>>>>Pandora is not in Italy???
>>>>
>>>>Yes I Am , LOL!
>>>>Pan
>>>
>>>I don't believe you.
>>>
>>>"have spent my Xmas holiday in Italy. But now I Am come back In
>>>America. My Italian Ng friends needed my presence: they were so
>>>lovely and so kind ... I have had a nice welcome there!!!
>>>It's a pity they are a little hill billies folks! 
DDDDDDDD
>>>I'm very glad to see you again! today is the Epifany feast here.
>>>I'm gonna do some Spinach gnocchi today for lunch!
>>>I will tell you!
>>>Fondly
>>>Pandora"
>>>
>>>No one talks like this.
<LOL> *NO ONE* talks like this. Spoken with great authority. And
foolishly great error.
>>>I've met a number of Italians who own
>>>restaurants (around here it's the Gristanti family) and they don't
>>>talk like they are members of a crime family.
And everybody knows that all Italians talk alike, right? And they're
allied with crime families, right? And you know from how they talk that
they would write grammatically correct English, right? It's a flaw of
logic to try to postulate from the particular (one example) to the
universal (everybody) and, in this case, it's also a character flaw.
<LOL> As for knowing Italians who own restaurants, I used to be one. And
I even know some.
>>>They sure as hell
>>>wouldn't TYPE like they are. You, my friend, deserve every criticism
>>>you get. With your half-assed "English" you are an insult to every
>>>legitimate Italian-American who came here to make a new life.
And you, Jill, are so far off-the-mark that it's hard to believe you
consider this rational.
>>What, in her posts, suggests "talk like they are members of a crime
>>family"? What are you seeing that I'm missing?
>
>
> She talks and writes like she is illiterate of the English language. I
> don't believe she is. She also let everyone think (see the question from
> Ophelia) to which I replied) she was IN Italy when it turns out she's
> somewhere in the USA. To me that smacks of deception.
Jill, it's absolutely, completely a matter of your not understanding.
Nothing else. She spent the holidays more actively engaged in Italian
NG's (as she states above) and has now rejoined RFC which she rightly
considers American if only by weight of numbers of participants.
And your extreme reaction and insistence on the correctness of your
opinion in the face of clarifying explanations makes you look pretty silly.
> The way she "talks"
> I'd expect a member of the Gambino family to come over and smack me around
> for not believing her. At least she likes to cook, but I'm not buying the
> illiterate Italian thing for a single minute.
Jill, it's a singular astonishment how utterly wrong you are about this
and, further, how much like Sheldon you sound. How poisonous you are
being in the depths of your error.
She lives in northern Italy. I have postmarks and addresses to prove it.
In private correspondence, her English is as it is on group. She's not
illiterate - far from it - she suffers exactly the same things that
anyone speaking in languages not their own does.
As for acquaintanceship with Italians - particularly northern Italians -
my experience far, far trumps yours. My family came from there and my
first language was Italian. I know the typical language formations
likely to emerge in English (in which subject I'm university-degreed)
from that linguistic background. They're what she posts.
It would be good if you bothered to actually read what others have
posted about her and the situation. Look less foolish. Sound less bigoted.
Pastorio
