Wordie: Bar: Comments

Comment by MissAnthropist, 2 months ago

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:30:23 +0000

{Zincali} Stone.
'Bar lachi', loadstone.
'Bares del mol', 'The rocks of the wine'.

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:11:09 +0000

Great citation Pro. The last bit reminds me of similar processes at work in Indonesia under Soeharto. The General was very much a control freak, and very peeved at the way foreign expressions would just creep in. So like all good dictators he had a committee of bureaucrats hard at work trying to Indonesianise borrowings. Some of the results were just funny. kandidat candidate was replaced with admittedly more Indonesian calon, although the latter is typically associated with prospective marriage suitors! ATMs were by then cropping up all over the big cities. The government linguists worked out that ATM must therefore be Anjungan Tunai Mandiri independent cash platform. It kind of works, although the idea behind it is wacky. At best I can pass it off as state-sponsored mnemonics.

Comment by Prolagus, 3 months ago

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:37:45 +0000

The Fascist Italianization was the violent and systematic process by which, between 1924 and 1945, the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini forced foreign populations living in Italy to assume Italian culture and language, and worked on erasing any traces of existence of other nations on the territory of Mussolini's Italy.
In the 1930s a program of Italianization of the language was started. Foreign words were forbidden and new Italian words were created (such "calcio" instead of "football", or "consociazione" instead of "club").
(from Wikipedia)

Some of the words just sound weird, for example ghiacciaia instead of freezer. But the weirdest ever was mescita instead of bar: as bilby said on one of my lists, the word is "highly integrated", and it was already at the time. So there was a clumsy attempt to pass it off as an acronym for Bevande Alcoliche Rivendita ("Wines and Spirits Retail Outlet").

Comment by gangerh, 8 months ago

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:17:53 +0000

A pub room with service and not necessarily one with a servery (also called a bar) in it. There are several different types of bars.
Thank you Barrie Pepper.

Comment by gangerh, 8 months ago

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:15:48 +0000

A pub room with a servery.

Comment by thtownse, 11 months ago

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:05:40 +0000

I love programming language grammar and the way it folds, spindles and mutilates English.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:57:40 +0000

See foo.