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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 686374, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Eppur si muove!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;You&#039;re welcome&quot; in Italian is &quot;Prego.&quot;&nbsp; (Babelfish is limited by its literalness.)</p><p><br /></p><p>For common phrases, I rely on <a href="http://www.Linganaut.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.Linganaut.com" rel="nofollow">www.Linganaut.com</a>&nbsp; However, that said, Linguanaut gives &quot;Please&quot; as &quot;Per favore&quot; which I learned is an Americanism from the Spanish &quot;por favor&quot; imported to Italy since World War II.&nbsp; Please in Italian is &quot;per piacere.&quot;&nbsp; Languages change, of course.&nbsp; &quot;Boyfriend... girlfriend... computer... OK ... &quot; you hear them all over. One day on campus, this girl was rattling on her cellphone in Arabic and in the middle I heard &quot;I&#039;m so sure&quot; universal Girlese, no doubt, along with &quot;Whatever.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one of the 500 lira also, average circ, toned black.&nbsp; Now I will keep an eye out at shows, etc., especially for the 1957 and any and all in higher grade.&nbsp; I had mine in with a rick of other half-crowns like the French 2 Franc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Columbus was not &quot;Italian.&quot;&nbsp; He was Genoese.&nbsp; There was no Italy, except, of course, as the word defines a peninsula in southern Europe, like Iberia.&nbsp; The idea of an Italian nation-state was new to the 19th century.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin of Genoa to be posted later.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Ciao! works for both hello and good-bye, as do in other languages Aloha and Shalom, leading to the universal Country &amp; Western hit tune:</p><p><b>When she said &quot;Ciao&quot; I thought she meant Hello, but she really meant Good-bye.</b>)</p><p><br /></p><p>The nicest way to bow out in Italian:&nbsp; &quot;Buona notte e sogni d&#039;oro!&quot;</p><p><b>Good night and Dreams of gold!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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