@GustavinoBevilacqua since I'm fascinated by all things floral and otherwise :) and am attempting to 'studio italiano' while I'm at it, I have a question for you - your profile states: 'Se son fiori fioriranno'
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@GustavinoBevilacqua since I'm fascinated by all things floral and otherwise :) and am attempting to 'studio italiano' while I'm at it, I have a question for you - your profile states: 'Se son fiori fioriranno'
Ma sono more.' But blackberries also flower? -
It is a bad pun.
Normally "se son fiori fioriranno" is a common way to say if the start is good the result will be nice.
The pun is on blackberries: "se son more".
The logical (but absurd) sequence, according to "fiori" and "fioriranno", will be "moriranno" (they will die).
Don't be concerned: many Italians don't get it
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@GustavinoBevilacqua I guess that's why I enjoy Italian so much:)
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G gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org shared this topic
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I'm a word juggler, in the Dada tradition
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Dada is one of my all time favourites. They tried to subvert the status quo, but sadly realized that it cannot be done by words alone, not even by means of 'think tanks', if the opponent has real tanks. Which (kind of :) brings me back to the start ☺ of the Italian floral saying, which acc to AI I consulted this am, has the rough equivalent 'actions speak louder than words'. But I think i prefer another equivalent (also provided by AI) 'the proof us in the pudding
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Like "The pen is mightier than the pig" (almost untranslatable without long explanations).
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@GustavinoBevilacqua than the sword in EN of course, but is there such a saying in Italian? And what is it in the original? Yesterday I've started a free version of learning Italian with an AI as 'my personal tutor' (it's an app, one of many that sprout up all over that place) so I can ask 'it' about it
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Yes, we have similar sayings about pens (in the writing tool sense) and swords.
Probably the original was in Latin, but this is not my branch.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Acc to the AI that nowadays pops up on my device everytime i want to ask anything "there is no established meaning for "the pen is mightier than the pig" as it is not a recognized idiom."
I guess this AI hasn't been (yet) trained to make the association of 'pig' and those who are legally entitled to excessive use of violence. Another proof of gugle partiality, I guess.
