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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2382574, member: 1452"]
Complete non-sequitur but I've been waiting for you to make an appearance...

So, I am walking through a park in Garfield, NJ going to watch my son compete in the middle school county cross-country championships and I come across  this group of guys playing bocce on two bocce courts.

I am early so I stop to watch them play.

I hear them speaking and can pick up about 1/3rd to 1/2 of what they are saying.

There is a guy sitting there watching them off to he side  but clearly part of the group and I say to him, "What dialect are you speaking?".

He gives me one of those sizing-up looks and says, "Italian.".

Knowing he is now  with me, I switch over to Italian and say, "No  you aren't.  I speak Italian and you guys are  not speaking Italian.  You are speaking some type of dialect.  What dialect are you speaking?".

Turns out the entire group comes from the neighborhood  with the neighborhood  being Palermo  and its nearby suburbs. All guys who emigrated in the 50s and 60s...

A little slice of Sicilian bocce in urban/suburban NJ...

How awesome is that?
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