Few English speakers may punctuate their sentences with capiche as a manner to check that the listener is following besides what they are saying. The same speakers will perhaps pronounce it ca-PEESH and say it is Italian. And though the word does have its roots in Italian, it has been altered in English. One will never see the word \u201ccapiche\u201d in real Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What one will find instead is capisci (ca-PEESH-ee) or capisce (ca-PEESH-ay), both are conjugations of the verb capire (\u201cto understand\u201d). It could be used similarly to ways English speakers use capiche, but simply be warned that capiche is certainly Americanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Latte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Modern-day American coffee culture takes plenty of its cues from Italy. But in that way of translation, Americans have gotten a lot of it wrong. The word latte means simply \u201cmilk\u201d in Italian. If you wish to avoid getting a cup of milk, you will want to order a caff\u00e8 latte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The differences do not finish there. If you attempt to use any of the vocabularies you learned from one of the leading cafe brands in the US, you will perhaps run into problems. Their size chart \u2014 tall, grande or venti \u2014 translates in Italian to tall (well not Italian), large, and twenty (talking about the 20 ounces of liquid in it). And if you order a caff\u00e8, you will be getting an espresso, not a drip coffee. Italian coffee culture is quite a big deal, so you would want to go in prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vendetta<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The concept of a blood feud goes deep in the cultural notion of Italy. Part of this could be traced back to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, probably the most famous story of two families that are continuously at each other\u2019s throats. And where do they actually live? Northern Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The word or term vendetta, however, does not mean \u201cblood feud.\u201d It actually means \u201cvengeance,\u201d which is the same concept, but if you call a thing a vendetta in Italian, you will not necessarily get across simply how serious a feud is. If you have to tell an Italian about the bad blood between you and another family that has stayed for generations, you would be better off using the word faida<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bologna and Pepperoni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Are there really any two meats more quintessentially Italian compared to pepperoni and bologna? As you may guess, the answer is yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The word pepperoni hails from the Italian peperone, which stands for \u201cpepper.\u201d The sausage one knows as pepperoni was made by Italian-Americans. If you visit Italy and order a pizza having peperoni, you will get a pizza having peppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bologna, the common lunchtime meat, is actually named after the part of Italy of the same name. The pronunciation is quite different, however: compare the American \u201cba-LOAN-ee\u201d and Italian \u201cbo-LOAN-ya.\u201d And what Americans say \u201cbologna\u201d is formed on mortadella, a sort of meat that did hail from Bologna. They are not exactly the same, though. Mortadella is a cured pork sausage having visible chunks of pork fat, pistachio, and peppercorn. Bologna can be a number of various meats, and there would be no visible chunks in at all. You perhaps will not find any bologna in Bologna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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