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NoonSeptember 11, 2022 – 08:48
In Neapolitan the inkwell, a bottle that contains ink
from eri de luca
The name of the tasty cephalopod should not lead to misunderstandings. Instead in Neapolitan the inkwell, a bottle that contains ink. In the elementary school of the early 1950s, people learned to write using a nib and inkwell, set in the wooden counter, regularly supplied by the janitor.
It was a kind of art to dip the tip and guess the angle on the paper so as not to stain it with the drop. Those of us schoolchildren who only spoke Neapolitan were made fun of by the teacher. They couldn’t say inkwell and the squid always came out. Relentless, the teacher repeated from the chair: We’ll make it stuffed.
The schoolchildren laughed, not me, thanks to my mother who had taught me to recognize inequalities. They learn. Otherwise they mock each other. For my opposition I have continued for years to invert the two names, calling the squid inkwell.
But since he throws the black when in danger, wasn’t the Neapolitan right to call the ink bottle squid? By the way, even the word ink was difficult for schoolchildren short of Italian: in feminine Neapolitan: ‘a gnostia.
11 September 2022 | 08:48
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