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  2. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  3. Riocontra - Wikipedia

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    In spite of insufficient education and non-standard use of the language, Riocontra speakers have produced a rich lexical repertoire. The passage from the official language to Riocontra occurs as mentioned mainly through the inversion of the syllables, but also with the change of the last vowel and truncation and elision in the last vowel of the neologism formed.

  4. Polari - Wikipedia

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    Polari (from Italian parlare 'to talk') is a form of slang or cant historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and prostitutes, and particularly among the gay subculture.

  5. Category:Italian slang - Wikipedia

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  6. Pope used vulgar Italian word to refer to LGBT people ...

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    Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...

  7. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  8. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

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    6. Hoosegow. Used to describe: Jail or prison Coming from the Spanish word "juzgado" which means court of justice, hoosegow was a term used around the turn of the last century to describe a place ...

  9. Parmigiano dialect - Wikipedia

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    Parmigiano is written using the Latin alphabet, but spelling can vary within a dialect. It has never been standardised, and the language is rarely written. [2] Still, a number of Parmigani-Italian dictionaries have been published. [citation needed] Angelo Mazza and translator Clemente Bondi were prolific writers of poetry in Parmigiano. Most of ...