{"id":4018,"date":"2017-08-22T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2017-08-22T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T20:30:32","slug":"briccone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/2017\/08\/22\/briccone\/","title":{"rendered":"Briccone"},"content":{"rendered":"

One morning in the dinning room at Casa di Alfredo<\/i>, I was was attempting to transport a rather large piece of mille foglie <\/i>from the buffet table to my already brimming plate. As it slipped from the tongs, landing in a poof of powdered sugar and leaving a chocolate blob on the pristine<\/p>\n

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Playing chess outside Casa di Alfredo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

table cloth, my host grandmother (nonna) <\/i>tottered into the kitchen and quipped \u201ctu sei un briccone!<\/i>\u201d Thus I learned my new favorite Italian word.<\/div>\n

As my friend Alex – who spent the last 6 months attending classes at the University of Bologna – told me, it is when we are mortified or hilarified, or both, when memories and bits of the language stick in our minds.<\/p>\n

In this context and with her voice inflection, briccone <\/i>was a light hearted admonition from an elder to a younger – \u201ctu sei un briccone\u201d <\/i>roughly meant \u201coh you knave, you\u201d . When I got to school that same morning and asked Giuseppe, a native Sienese and the student assistant in my class, what kind of word briccone <\/i>is, he told me it would be a bad idea to call our professor, Enzo, a briccone<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Later when my roommate here in Siena, Alex, forked my king and rook and I exclaimed \u201ctu sei un proprio briccone<\/i>\u201d, the Italian students watching our game laughed and nodded in agreement.<\/p>\n

The next morning, I asked nonna <\/i>if she would kindly indulge my crippling espresso addiction and make me un caf\u00e9 per favore<\/i>. When she asked if I would like any milk – or maybe even a macchiato, I replied that perhaps a caf\u00e9 corretto <\/i>– espresso and rum or grappa combined in a 1:1 ratio – would be appropriate at this hour. When she slapped my arm in mock horror and replied \u201cno, no \u00e8 sbagliato nella mattina,<\/i>\u201d I told her that all bricconi <\/i>drink caf\u00e9 corretto <\/i>in the morning. She chuckled, and complimented my small, but important, linguistic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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