TITLE:ITALIAN LESSON 1 (Scene Lyrics 1)
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                                 3ITALIAN LESSON


Let's  face  it,  the first words you learn of a new language are the swears and
the coarse words, the ones that for you are just a sound but for the natives can
be rude and quite strong insults.
Well,  guys,  here is your occasion to learn new "sounds", bear them in mind, if
you  are  somehow  planning  to visit this country, cos you will hear them quite
easily.  Be a bit careful in their use anyway, there can be misunderstandings...
  
Let's start from the classic words, 2CAZZO 1and 2FIGA1, which can have different and
maybe funny meanings.
CUNT  in  italian is FIGA, which is a vulgar word (you will never hear it at the
TV  news...), but FIGA means also GIRL or GOOD LOOKING GIRL or also GIRL FRIEND,
on  the  other way DICK is CAZZO but a boy is not a CAZZO and a good looking boy
is a 2FIGO1.
In  italian  if a word finishes with an "O" it's a male word, if it ends with an
"A"  it's  female  (there  are  exceptions but not important).  So, even if FIGA
stands  for  CUNT (or PUSSY) and nice girl, FIGO is only nice boy (and by no way
it  means dick).  We will come back later on CAZZO and FIGA, now follows another
example  of  a word with curious different meanings:  2CULO1.  CULO (a little less
vulgar  than Figa) means ASS and also GAY, which can be a quite natural shift of
meaning,  but  CULO  means  also  LUCK!  So if you say "Che culo!" you can mean:
"What an ass!", "What a luck!", "What a gay!".
  
Like  in  every  other  language  there  are many words that can mean "Pussy" or
"Dick"  or "Fuck" and have other different and normal meanings.  For example the
male masturbation is vulgarly translated as 2SEGA1 (you can guess how funny for us
is  the  name  of the videogames company...) but SEGA is also SAW (the word, not
the  past  of  See)  and  if you want to insult someone you can say him "Sei una
sega", which means something like "You are unable to do anything, you are almost
nothing, you are an asshole".
  
That's  not all, the italian doesn't use these words just with that meaning (and
quite  often,  I'd  dare  to say), CAZZO and FIGA are two marvellous examples of
words  used  as simple interjections, in the middle of sentences and without any
real  meaning,  or  as exclamations of surprise, anger, rage, disappointment and
delusion.  They can also be used as asseverations, assents.
  
Here  will  follow  a  practical example, be careful because things start to get
difficult, if you find problems read back the first part of the lesson :->
  
2Mario: CAZZO 1(Interjection. Abbreviation: I)2, WHAT A FIGA! 1(nice girl)
3Luigi: FIGA! 1(Means assent. Abbr: A)
2Mario: FIGA 1(I)2, LOOK HER CULO! 1(ass)
3Luigi: CAZZO! 1(A)3, FIGA 1(I)3 I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A CULO 1(ass)3.
2Mario: OH, FIGA 1(I)2, YESTERDAY I MET THAT FIGA 1(nice girl)2 OF JANE.
3Luigi: CAZZO  1(I)3, WHAT A CULO!  1(luck)3 AND WHAT CAZZO 1(no meaning, comparable
       to "hell" in "what the hell are you saying". Abbr: NM)3 HAVE YOU SAID HER?
2Mario: EH, FIGA 1(I)2, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT CAZZO 1(NM)2 SAY.
3Luigi: CAZZO 1(I)3, YOU ARE A SEGA 1(poor boy, asshole)3, FIGA 1(I)3, YOU CAN'T DO A
3       CAZZO  1("nothing")3  WITH  SUCH  A FIGA!  1(nice girl)3 CAZZO 1(I)3 YOU MUST
3       SAY SOME CAZZATA  1(new word!  from cazzo, can be translated in this case
       with "bullshit") 3WHEN YOU MEET HER.
2Mario: EH, CAZZO 1(I)2, WHAT CAZZO 1(NM)2 COULD I DO? I NEVER KNOW WHAT CAZZO 1(NM)2
2       SAY, CAZZO 1(I, common also at the end of a phrase)2.
3Luigi: FIGA 1(I)3, WHAT CAZZO 1(NM)3 CAN I SAY YOU, IF YOU ARE A SEGA 1(asshole)
3       WITH THE FIGHE 1(plural of figa, here stands for nice girls)3 I CAN'T DO
3       A CAZZO 1("anything")3.
2Mario: CAZZO 1(I)2, VAFFANCULO 1(It means "Fuckoff", note the CULO at the end)2,
2       YOU ARE A SEGA 1(asshole)2 LIKE ME, ALWAYS DOING A SEGA 1(masturbation)2.
3Luigi: VAFFANCULO, PIRLA 1(new word: synonymous of "cazzo", but here means 
       ASSHOLE (cazzo is never referred to people, you can say "testa di
       cazzo" (dick head) but not only "cazzo" to a person, "pirla" on the
       other way is never used as interjection)3, TESTA DI CAZZO, COGLIONE!
       (asshole, literally it means testicle (but is vulgar))3.
2Mario: HEI!, YOU ARE THE PIRLA 1(asshole)2, FANCULO 1(abbreviation of VAFFANCULO,
       fuck off) 2TESTA DI CAZZO 1(dickhead)2!
3Luigi: FIGLIO DI PUTTANA! 1("son of a bitch")3, FACCIA DA CULO 1("ass face")3,
3       VAFFANCULO!
2Mario: SEGAIOLO 1(the one who masturbates a lot)2, PIRLONE, COGLIONE, MINCHIONE,
2       CAZZONE!! 1(all meaning asshole or something similar, here)
3Luigi: YOU HAVE CULO 1(luck)3, TODAY I DON'T WANT TO SMASH YOUR FACCIA DA CAZZO
       (dick face)3.
2Mario: MA VA A CAGARE 1("fuckoff", literally it means "Go to shit")2, PIRLA.
  
Ok,  the  discussion  is  ended  (read again avoiding the brackets for something
quite  strange  and  maybe  funny), note that many words are actually almost not
said,  like in every spoken language many words can be said very quickly so that
are  almost not understandable (especially the interjections).  As you can guess
when  cazzo  and  figa  are  used  as  interjections they lose all their meaning
becoming  simple  sounds.   Of course not every italian speaks like that and, of
course, not in every situation.
  
As you have seen we have meet new interesting words.
For  example  FUCK  OFF has some italian variations, from the complete and quite
radical  2VAI A FARE IN CULO1 to the common 2VAFFANCULO1 to the abbreviated and fast
2FANCULO1.  Similar meaning has 2VAI A CAGARE (or VACCAGARE)1, which, I repeat, it's
a quite direct invitation to go to defecate somewhere.