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[fpb]

I have been downloading Italian folk songs, and there is one (from Rome, natch) that I really want to hear. Title: Te ci hanno mai mannato a quer paese? - roughly translated, Did anyone ever tell you to get lost?

Edited in: I have now heard it, and it is even better than I thought - in fact, the proper description is "laugh-out-loud funny". Also, unfortunately, quite untranslatable.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. If you want to know, it's by a great Roman-dialect comedian and singer, Gigi Proietti.

[headnoises.livejournal.com]

Good thing I'd only use it in print, I'd murder that name.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Again from the same song - you may change the sex: "I am no king or emperor. So how did I wind up with the privilege of such a sovereign queen in my bed?" I try, but there is no way I can make it as funny as the original.

As for the name, it's not that hard. It might be rendered in American English as G.G. Proy-Attey. Weird, perhaps, but not hard to pronounce. My own name is far worse (in fact, I almost never hear an English person pronounce it even understandably).