Comments on: “Weekend, dolce weekend”

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:18:55 +0000

I guess I don’t see the funny here. Weekend is a word in italian. It means the same thing as our word weekend, and it isn’t a reecent cultural import. There was no italian word for the span of days around the sabbath where most people didn’t have to work, so they borrowed the english word for it about 50 years ago. I remember learning Italian 10 years ago, and this was one of the fun things we learned. This was also from a prof who used to say that English was the bastard child of Italian and German…

By: Music Blog

Music Blog — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:59:49 +0000

“Weekend, Dolce Weekend”

What are they singing about?…

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:24:30 +0000

This reminds me of an op-ed I saw in the NYT once (I think); the author was a German writer, and he wrote the column in German, but with so many words from English that Germans now use, that an English speaker could have understood a good portion of it. Which was precisely the point.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:11:34 +0000

My friend said the same thing about Spain and t-shirts. People in their teens were walking around with highly suggestive slogans emblazoned across their chests, none of which made much sense past the innuendo.

Makes me think twice about my singular kanji t-shirt.

By: Alley Rat

Alley Rat — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:50:59 +0000

funny! I remember being in Bologna in the winter, and walking near an outdoor skating rink where children were skating. They were blaring American music and Britney Spears’ “I’m a slave…for you” came on and I thought, this is so odd…these people have NO IDEA what this song is saying.

Also I went to see an American rap group while I was there, and they kept talking to the crowd and telling them to put their hands in the air,and only like three people did it. They were a pretty political group and it was strange to be one of the only people there who understood anything they were saying, since I’d spent the week feeling like I didn’t understand anyone…