{"id":4347,"date":"2023-05-31T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2023\/05\/31\/speaking-macaronic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:03:18","slug":"speaking-macaronic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2023\/05\/31\/speaking-macaronic\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Macaronic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Hey you, can you speak <em>Macaronic<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, let&#8217;s be more precise here: there is no such an idiom.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is the expression <em>macaronic language<\/em>.<br \/>\nAnd yes, it was named after <em>macaroni<\/em>, a generic name to indicate pasta already in use in the late Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>The name came from a poem, called <em>Macaronea<\/em>, in which the author (<em>Tifi degli Odasi<\/em>) made fun of sages and doctors, full of arrogance and always ready to pronounce phrases in Latin to demonstrate their intellectual superiority.<br \/>\n<em>Tifi degli Odasi<\/em> targeted them with his satire, mixing words of vulgar Italian with the elegant Latin of the clergymen and the academics.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome was a comic contrast: the language of rites and ceremonies corrupted, so to speak, by common people to discuss their ordinary things.<\/p>\n<p>Why that name? Well, what better way to convey the idea of \u200b\u200bsimple and popular than <em>macaroni<\/em>, the food of the <em>hoi polloi<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays the term <em>macaronic<\/em> is still in use, to indicate an idiom made up of a mixture of terms from different languages, very often with the intention of creating hilarious puns, or to make fun of something scientific or particularly sophisticated.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, whatever language you speak, if you are more interested in eating macaroni, I have the right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/cooking\/?lang=en\"><em>cateringorum equipmentus<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>to cook them![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Hey you, can you speak Macaronic? Ok, let&#8217;s be more precise here: there is no such an idiom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}