@valhalla @diegor sorry only speak! I don't think they could piece the words back together for each other. It's just that they can quickly remove the continents because the bones of the words are vowels! Which I find utterly fascinating. Tell me if you can do it please. I am captivated.

I don't know if every Italian can do it but my shocked slackjawed random sampling is still at 100%:
They can speak easily and rapidly without any consonants!

It's astounding. I wish I had a recording to convey how much so. They're telling me that's how vowels are taught in school, and it sure demonstrates how vowels are what they hear first and most, while Americans, who just schwa everything and aren't practiced at hearing modulations, constantly err.

So many toots I want to boost
but they don't do their own alt-text
and I'm tired!

#AltText

Tarquinia is all that.

There is no unskilled labor. When we really observe the workers around us, it's so obvious. The nearest thing to unskilled labor is management.

I can't easily find confirmation this morning, but I now suspect the iconic Avenida Atlântica wavy-pattern "Portuguese pavement" in Rio de Janeiro Brazil was derived at least in part from the natural patterns in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park much farther north. I will keep looking into this. I was just struck by a friend's vacation photos today. What are the chances these are *not* related?

Italian notes:

This one's a little tricky to word. Bottom line (heh), I'm never going to live without a bidet again. However in buying a laundry basket to fit in the rather small space beside the bidet, the clerk suggested I be careful about the kneespace it took up, a common interior design problem. What-what?? Knees... to the wall? Uh-oh. Apparently I've been doing it all wrong. It explains so much about the rest of the design, as well, both mine and theirs.