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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Capisce*

I'm not normally one to spell check people but I recently came across capisce written down and wanted to share since I had no idea how it was spelt either

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But that's "Kapee-chair", the high Italian word. I'm using the bastardised americanised version of the word learned from likely Sicialian migrants and popularised in film and media

[–] Aceticon 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a general rule Romance (I.e. those derived from Latin) languages don't use the letters K, Y and W, so a common word such as the 2nd singular person of the present tense of the Italian verb for "understanding" is not going to start with a "k".

I'm not Italian and I definitely misspell Italian words when writing them, but that " k" in your attempt was the bit that felt really, painfully wrong to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, I think you're right. I actually learned the word first from a Cory Doctorow novella I, Robot (no, not Asimov), and there I can see it's definitely spelled with a "C".

My ex was Italian-German, so linguistically "C" felt right for her when writing, but to spell it out she would use a "K" since the letter C in german doesn't exist (yeah okay it does but not by itself, and if it does then it's mostly from imported words... like capeesh....), and I've probably overwritten the spelling of "capeesh" in my head from that.

[–] buddascrayon 3 points 2 months ago

Did you know that spelt bread is actually pretty tasty. Especially when toasted.