ravenlynne wrote:

> Yes. In my Italian language class we were taught Italian. We were told
> that we would be understood in the north. In naples, it's a combo of
> italian, spanish and greek.
>
> I was told in a hotel in Rome (a holiday inn lol) after telling the
> concierge that we live in Italy, in Naples that "Naples isn't Italy". He
> had this pinched, disgusted look on his face.
>
> I suppose it takes a few generations to change a mindset.
>
"Fa Napoli" LOL God I grew up hearing my father say that in
exasperation. Years ago, I mumbled it myself while fighting with an IV
pump in a patient room and heard me and laughed-he knew exactly what I'd
meant!

Once my father about Sicilians (my fathers family came from outside
Benevento) he sort of pooh-poohed (less than an outright sneer) and said
they had too much Egyptian in them.