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| simonov Senior Member Portugal Joined 5592 days ago 222 posts - 438 votes  Speaks: English | Message 1 of 13 14 October 2009 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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For all tag nerds.
I first noticed this "Penitenziagite" in the list of tags, useless to me as a non-pro member, and then again next to another post in this "General discussion" section. And so I think this is the correct room for this post. I had no idea what "Penitenziagite" meant! I searched for it and found the explanation, via Google, in a thread started by the administrator on 26 April 2005. As I found it very interesting I thought others might like it too. Here the link The thread is quite short but very enlightening. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7379 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 13 14 October 2009 at 7:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hope you will forgive this indulgence of your Administrator for an obscure but rather memorable tag for those who wish to pursue many languages at the same time!
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| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6086 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 3 of 13 14 October 2009 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's from the Name of the Rose. I loved the film, Sean Connery was awesome as usual. I hope to read the book soon!
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| simonov Senior Member Portugal Joined 5592 days ago 222 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English | Message 4 of 13 14 October 2009 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, of course! Very memorable indeed. I thought it was really interesting thread. And a good word to know to have people wonder what the heck you are talking about. I love it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 13 14 October 2009 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Penitenziagite: (QUOTE) (Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco)
"Penitenziagite! Vide quando draco venturus est a rodegarla l'anima tua! La mortz est super nos! Prega che vene lo papa santo a liberar nos a malo de todas le peccata! Ah ah, ve piase ista negromanzia de Domini Nostri Ieus Christi! Et anco jois m'es dols e plazer m'es dolors.. Cave el diabolo! Semper m'aguaita in qualche canto per adentarme le carcagna. Ma Salvatore non est insipiens! Bonum monasterium, et aqui se magna et se priega dominum nostrum. Et el resto valet un figo seco. Et amen. No?" I am now very curious and want to know, which language it is. There are some Latin grammar structures in it, but this is not classical Latin, as I learned it at school. To me it seems to be a mixture of Italian and Latin. Quote: "Et anco jois m'es dols e plazer m'es dolors" - This is neither Italian nor Latin. Can somebody explain this language to me? Not necessary to translate it. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 14 October 2009 at 9:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5812 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 6 of 13 14 October 2009 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
It’s a mix of languages (Italian, French, Latin, Spanish, English and maybe others). In the film Sean Connery describes him as speaking “all languages, and none”. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 13 14 October 2009 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
It looks like a corrupted version of Ancient Occitan, maybe influenced by Norditalian dialects. I'm not quite sure of the meaning, but I guess it would correspond to this in Modern French: "et encore joie m'est doux et plaisir m'est douleur" (and yet joy is sweet to me and pleasure is pain). ... which sounds somewhat confused. Any better proposals from resident Occitans? EDIT: or maybe somebody has read the whole book and knows the authorized translation? I dropped it even before the two itinerants had reached the monastery. Eco's previous semiotic treatises were more my style. Edited by Iversen on 15 October 2009 at 9:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 13 15 October 2009 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||
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So that's what the word means! I was wondering about it, too. I remember that guy now, a little. I haven't seen the movie, and I don't have the book here to look at, but if I recall correctly, this character speaks in a mix of several languages all at once and is only semi-intelligible.
Iversen, don't feel badly about not finishing the book! I read it, but barely got past the beginning. The prologue is particularly thickly written, but the story's plot and pace both pick up quickly past that point. (I must be feeling literary and alliterative lately - words are arriving in weird ways). When I read your post, I remembered something from Eco's introduction in which he states that he intentionally set it up to give the reader some trouble. I looked it up: here's a reference from a review: "Eco himself has admitted that the first hundred pages were deliberately opaque, a sort of semi-permeable membrane that allowed passage to only the most dedicated reader" -- Allen B. Ruch review I'm sure you are a VERY dedicated reader, and I think Eco overdid the density of the book's start. Interestingly, the book is cited as part of the definition of an "Unread Bestseller," that is, a book bought by many but read by few, over here at Wordspy: The Word Lover's Guide to New Words: Wordspy Be careful if you explore this website--it's addictive! I can't remember most of the philosophical, historical and symbolic details from the text. They were fascinating, but there were just too many all at once. It does, though, turn into a very engaging murder mystery. I saw an exhibit at Stiftsbibliotek St. Gallen last year called: "Geheimnisse auf Pergament" about monastary manuscripts with all sorts of embedded secrets and symbols. I was thinking about the Name of the Rose when I was there, and I came home with some really cool postcards for my wall, which I lost. I mean the cards, not the wall . . . oh, words and mysteries . . . so much fun! EDIT: I tried making hyperlinks but it didn't work - Error 404? EDIT: Many Months Later. Fixed the links: the error was simply not knowing how to do this at the time Edited by meramarina on 12 April 2010 at 3:57pm 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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