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Sneezing in Southern Chinese culture means that someone is speaking ill behind your back. "A great fortunate occurrence" or "A good one" 唔好意思 (m4 hou2 ji3 si1) "Excuse me" Chechen: Dukha vekhil for a male Dukha yekhil for a female "Live for a long time" Dela reze hiyla "Thank you"; literally means "I wish God will bless you" Croatian
God bless you (variants include God bless or bless you [1]) is a common English phrase generally used to wish a person blessings in various situations, [1] [2] especially to "will the good of another person", as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting or writing a valediction.
Other local dialects in Latinoamerica created by the Italian emigrants are the Talian dialect in Brazil and the Chipilo dialect in Mexico. The following is a small list: Anchoa (Italian dialect -Genoese- ancioa) Birra. Beer. From "Birra". Calarse. To digest (or sustain) something bad. From "Calarsi" with the same meaning. Chao. Friendly salute.
ataque de nervios a sudden nervous reaction, similar to hysterics, or losing control, experienced in response to something [2] ¡Bendito! variants are ¡Ay bendito! and dito - “aww poor you” or “oh my god”; “ay” meaning lament, and “bendito” meaning blessed.
A Roman maxim adopted by Roman Dictator Julius Caesar, King Louis XI of France and the Italian political author Niccolò Machiavelli. dixi: I have spoken: A popular, eloquent expression, usually used in the end of a speech. The implied meaning is that the speaker has said all that had to be said and thus the argument is completed ...
The works by Alessandro Manzoni, the leading Italian Romantic, are a symbol of the Italian unification for their patriotic message and because of his efforts in the development of the modern, unified Italian language; his novel The Betrothed was the first Italian historical novel to glorify Christian values of justice and Providence, and it is ...
A priest saying Dominus vobiscum while celebrating a Tridentine Mass. The response is Et cum spíritu tuo, meaning "And with your spirit."Some English translations, such as Divine Worship: The Missal and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, translate the response in the older form, "And with thy spirit."
A study conducted in central Italy proved this gesture frontier to be true; despite the mobility of the Italian population and the existence of nationwide media, the majority of the northern Roman population used the 'chin flick' with the Northern meaning, and the southern Neapolitan population used the Southern meaning. [14]