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Terrone (Italian pronunciation: [terˈroːne]; plural terroni, feminine terrona) [a] is an epithet of the Italian language with which the inhabitants of Northern and Central Italy depreciatively or jokingly indicate the inhabitants of Southern Italy. Southern Italians, in turn, call Italians from the northern regions polentoni.
Polentone (Italian pronunciation: [polenˈtone]; plural polentoni, feminine polentona) is an epithet of the Italian language originally coined with a joking connotation [1] [2] to indicate a great polenta eater and, subsequently, used by the inhabitants of Southern Italy to indicate the inhabitants of Northern Italy in a depreciative sense.
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]
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 ...
' Here is the tarpaulin '; the word telùn is Milanese for telone, or tarpaulin, meaning 'the circus tent'. The title is a pun on the phonetically similar word terùn (lit. ' terrone ', a deprecating word for people from southern Italy). Potevo rimanere offeso! (2001): lit. ' I could have been offended! ' – a show centered on their Swiss ...
These languages derive, without exception, from Vulgar Latin but not from Tuscan; therefore it follows that the name "Italian" is a purely geographical reference. Today, Extreme Southern Italian dialects are still spoken daily, although their use is limited to informal contexts and is mostly oral.
Guido (/ ˈ ɡ w iː d oʊ /, Italian:) is a North American subculture, slang term, and ethnic slur referring to working-class urban Italian-Americans. The guido stereotype is multi-faceted. At one point, the term was used more generally as a disparaging term for Italians and people of Italian descent.
Originally was a spoken form of буржуа "bourgeois" (in Marxist meaning) Čefur A derogatory term for a person of South Slavic/Balkan descent (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, etc.) with extremely chauvinistic and racist connotations. Četnik, Četo