I Blasons popolari, included the popular tradition of preference judgments praising or insulting about other countries, on the different regions, provinces, towns and villages, each of them were attributed to very specific epithets (more or less extensive), with an ambivalent meaning (albeit with a certain predominance of disparaging) […] I shields popular are deeply ambivalent. Each nation, province to the city is the best in the world for something specific: The British are more drunks, the inhabitants of Lorraine the most powerful sexually, Avignon are more than elsewhere, women of easy virtue, Bretons are the most foolish of all, etc.., but this sign has in most cases a double meaning, or more exactly is double (stupidity, drunkenness, etc.,). Accordingly, praise and insult blend into an indissoluble unity. […] Usually the shields Popular qualify as ironic, in the original sense of the term greek, but it is false if it gives a new meaning, more subjective and negative.
Children, the boys were soon in contact with the “blasoni popolari”, in other words with the nicknames, with nicknames / soernóm as we call them, Styling, characterize the various countries as if they were securities, Coat of Arms, flags. There are, evidently, the various countries that are given these nicknames, are neighbors if they climax they hitch between them.
The parochialism plays, which, a very important role: is ridicules, mocks or maybe you also get to do backbiting or even slander the country near, exaggerating and exacerbating the moral or physical defects of the inhabitants, or being ironic about their activities, about their eating habits, on their traditions, the way they talk, dress…

VALLE Serina

 

LOWER VALLEY SERIANA

– the Tacu * de Aviàdech the topponi Aviatico

– i was amazed of the wicks of Ama Ama

– the mice sorèch de Amora Amora

– i topenére de le Talpe in Double Dual

– i mòcc de i muti in Double Dual

– i patatù de i patatoni in Double Dual

The pissa Mantei de-Selvi the boastful (?) Selvino

– the falìcc de 'LBI bankrupts Albino

– the cirimbì de 'LBI dandies of the Albino

– Lader and desensin of bricks and di Desenzano

– i fich (d’àsen) de Bónt 1 figs (d’asino) di Bondo

– the tétoi de Fiòbe of boiled chestnuts Fiobbio

– and bade them to my tree Abbazia di

– i biligòcc de la Alóta le castagne lesse di Vall’Alta

– the segadùr de Casa1 mowers Casale

– Dope de Comendù double Comenduno

– the asòi de Pradalónga beans Pradalunga

– the coderòcc de Pradalónga the quarrymen of whetstones of Pradalunga

*Tacù: “toppone; more pieces of linen cloth overlaid one another, sewn together and fixated in the guise of coltroncino. Mettesi under the child restraint to the urine, in the prevention of bed

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i bucì of Casnìch i vitellini Casnigo

i copazét of Casnìch the ammazzagente Casnigo

It's Riso

i lósérte de Nòssa they lucertole Nossa

i smèrda-bachècc de Nòssa gli SMERDA shoulder Nossa

i luf alégher Coren wolves cheerful Gorno

i cornage de Onéda the crows di Oneta

i burlapóm of Prémol Roll the apples Premolo

i scarpinòcc” of Par the Scarpinocc di Parre

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THOSE OF LOW

Those in the low-, those of the plain that is, we were called was. If you consult Tiraboschi II, reads: “It was, the one who works the land with oxen; but we say it more often disparagingly of an inhabitant of the county, and, more particularly of the plain. Our Bolo corresponds precisely to de Glebalis servus’ Latin, chiamavansi name by which those slaves who were dedicated to the cultivation of the land. Greco BwXocr gleba, country”. In an appendix to the vocabulary reads. “Add: spagnolo bolo and bolonio = balordo, stunned”. We must also bear in mind that, once, many boys of our party ended up doing 'I famèi, young, in the plains where they had a really miserable life, exploited to the maximum and badly treated and fed. Non deve, then, surprising that the hatred, with time, had arisen against “those of the low”; hatred that had materialized in the derogatory term of was. Masters, doctors, pastors, municipal secretaries, Sellers… who came from the lower were, at least at the beginning, seen with coldness, with detachment and avoidance tati, if not opposed, because was, yokels and then, above all, exploiters in the worst sense of the term.

Children, the boys drew great fun to these blazons villagers, these strange and picturesque sòernóm; vied to those who know more, who was there to c to combine it with many countries as possible. These same coat of arms, however, for boys BECOME¹ biggish, from occasion to demonstrate alertness and good memory, were transformed, well quick, and pretesto, starting point in order to give vent to the turf alive, among adults, until a few years ago.
This parochialism put in antagonism, in opposition not only children of neighbors who were in contact with each other at parties, visits to shrines, markets, le fiere… but also boys fractions of the same country, or even groups of families of boys of the same fraction, boys, namely that attended the same school, the same steps of the parish, playing together.
During these contacts (and not just those random with neighboring countries), not easily say inevitably, you could get to sfottersi, a deridersi, to exchange pranks, Jokes, insults, nomignoli, certainly not flattering appreciations. The Upside, cracks, zuffe, spedi^– punitive were not always avoidable and were not always painless, often leaving the consequences and aftermath.

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