Rough Translations
 Thirty three Trentonians came into Trento, all thirty three trotting.- If you look for me, I'm not here! Halfcircles are not "C"s.
- Do you retire?
- 188 lire plus 555 centesimi (cents)
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- Those who rise too high, oft fall - in great hurry.
- in a really detailed way
- On a rock a .. on the same was a rock.
- If the archbishop of Constantinople disavowed his archbishopric of Constantinople would you then disavow your archbishopric of Constantinople, just like the archbishop of Constantinople disavowed his archbishopric of Constantinople?
- No, I do not have a grandfather.
- The father weighs the pepper in Pisa. In Pisa, the pepper is weighed by the father.
- Pio Pietro Paolo Pula an artist from Palermo, paints a painting for little money. You haughty people, pay Pio Pietro Paolo Pula promptly so he'll leave for Palermo - his hometown.
- flower-beds (in a garden)
- The cook cooks in the kitchen and says that the cook lies down and is silent because his cousin does not say that she likes to cook in the kitchen with the cook.
- Oh, slave with the nutcracker what are you cracking? I am cracking six nuts from the old walnut tree with the nutcracker.
- Then Pele left for Peru as a parachutist, but he died as puree.
- If the archbishop of Costantinople would like to un-archbishop-of-constantinopolize himself, would you un-archbishop-of-constantinopolize yourself, to un-archbishop-of-constantinopolize him?
- A dish not deep enough, not much pepper fits.
- Squatting down picking up large leaves. Picking up large leaves squatting down.
- Paolo Pier Pancio a innexpert painter promised to paint Padova for little money, repented afterwards for not being paid enough. He went to Parma, his homeland, and passed away.
- Robespierre, the initiator of the Terror, held it for a horrible mistake to sprinkle verdigris on a rare brown green lizard.
- I went to Lione collecting cotton, I came running collecting cotton.
- Behind that palace there is a poor mad dog. Give a piece of bread to that poor mad dog.
- In the garden of Brother Andrew, Brother Simon leaves was collecting. In the garden of Brother Simon, Brother Andrew was collecting leaves.
- Three crusts of dry bread are in three tight pockets.
- Clear it is; Clear it will be; If he isn't clear it will clear up.
- A piece of pizza is stinking in the well of the madman of rags.
- Thirty-three Trentonians, all of them from Trento were trotting through the valleys of Trentino.
- Apelle, son of Apollo, made a ball of chicken skin. All the fish rose to the surface to see the ball of chicken skin made by Apelle, son of Apollo.
- On the bench the goat lives, under the bench the goat dies.
- On the cutting board the garlic is cut. Don't cut the table cloth. The table cloth is not the garlic. If you cut it, you make a mistake.
- One hears the dweller of the tomb on the other side,
the hoarse sound of the infernal trumpet. - Three tigers against three tigers. Thirty-three tigers against thirty-three tigers.
- Horror, horror, a green lizard on a brown wall!
- If today (the weather) isn't clear, tomorrow it will be clear, if it is not clear it will become clear.
- In Angel Street there was a seller of delicatessen who had a little pimple on the little finger.
Italian: In via dell'angelo c'era un salumiere che aveva un piccolo foruncolo sul dito mignolo
- Seven small anchovies were tightly packed in small cans ... poor things!
- Beloved Mita, half crazy, put half a pencil and a pencil in her pocket.
- Who brings in harbors the doors, departs from the harbors and bring in harbors the open doors.
- 66 murderers went to Assisi all 66 murdering themselves.
- The round wheel spun red hot, keeping close to the net.
- If the attendant doesn't serve as an attendant what use is that she serves as attendant that doesn't serve?
- Seven skeptical stupid sheikhs had sciatica in Shanghai.
- Of what use is an attendant that doesn't serve? Use an attendant that serves and let the attendant (work for) someone who uses an attendant that doesn't serve ...
- sweeten it for me
- The mice didn't have nephews.
- Palindrom. Translation: the mice didn't have nephews.
- Three donkeys came from Sardinia, loaded with figs, wine bottles and firewood.
- At this hour the "Chief of Police" (in a city) in the police-headquarters here is.
- There's a mad dog in a Piazza, give a piece of bread to that mad dog.
- If the rabbit takes your garlic away, take the garglic back and cut his claws.
- I sweep the house, the broom breaks; but, if I don't sweep breaking the broom, what do I sweep my little house with?
- Eve gives the grape to Ava, Ava gives the egg to Eve, now Eve is without the grape in the mean time Ava is without the egg.
- The cynic friends of the bedbugs (Cimex lectularius).
- Do you get angry? So do it!
- Didì said to Didò: "Didò tell Didù to tell Didì what Didì told Didò".
- A red (male) Russian snores. Red (female) Russian, do you snore, too?
- Her/His sister climbs on the cliff.
- A lemon, half a lemon, two lemons, three lemons
- What do they cut it when there is a party outside? The skin of pig.
- I went to Melia picking cotton, while went and came back I was picking cotton.
- I should go to see if I have to go to play soccer.
- Open the cabinet and take the spirit, set down the spirit and close the cabinet. Italian: Apri lo stipetto e prendi l'alcool, posa l'alcool e chiudi lo stipetto.
- At the seashore there was a a hailstorm. Each pellet was as large as pebble, and it killed roosters, chickens, and chicks.
- get rid of the nephews
- Do you want an egg now? If you don't want it now, I'll give it to you tomorrow.
- Leave here this bone.
- If we must go away, let's go. if we musn't go away, let's not go. Italian: Se dobbiamo andar via, andiamo. Se non dobbiamo andar via, non andiamo.
- We said we would go to Ellera and we must go to Ellera.
- Did you ever happen to wake up without a cent when sun goes up?
- Can you tell me where you are going?
- Where are you going? To the cinema. To see what? "Quo Vadis?" What does it mean? Where are you going? ...
- It is not boor who in a village was born, but who pastures of boorishness.
- Why, cut it off! Going on like this: you irritate me, you irritate him/her, and you irritate yourself!
- Does he/she have wings?
- A piece of goat meat, wrapped in a piece of paper.
- You in the mean time, have some tea.
- Yesterday it was oil now it is oil and air.
- For the passage to Pavia, I'll pay. Italian: "P(er) (l)a via (d)e Pavia pav(o) io." Per arrivare a Pavia, pago io.
- Inside a building there were three heads of mad dogs. Head of mad dog one; Head of mad dog two; Head of mad dog three.
- Don't bend down because I bend down. Italian: Non chinarti che mi chino io.
- Tinto (personal name) you re-painted the roof, but you are not very clever at re-painting roofs.
- Who is that girl taht came down from the hill with a red cap?
- Two peppers in oil. Italian; Due peperoni all'olio.
- Sound of bells: Tell me, if they say to go? If ever you must tell where to go! Italian: Dimmi, si dice di andare? Si ma mi devi dire dove!
- A Coca-Cola with a short straw
- What do you want, you? What do you have, do you have the tapeworm?
- A very warm Coke with a very short straw. (This is a well-known pronunciation test for non-Florentines; It is very hard for non-Florentines to correctly pronounce the "aspirated h".)
- Must I stoop there? But if I can't stoop, must I stoop again?
- I say and I know that he says, "go there he says". But he doesn't know that I know that he says, "go there he says.
- In a small pot there's little food. ItalianIn piccola pignatta ci sono poche pappe.
- They tied the roosters.
- Good evening miss, what a beautiful evening this evening is, if tomorrow evening is a beautiful evening like this one, what a beautiful evening tomorrow evening will be.
- Are you going to retire?
Grazie
Claudio, Sele i Marco, Silvia, Omino Babbaleo, Francesca Ballarin, Enrico Barazzoni, Conan Barbaro, Gisella Beritelli, Andrea Bonometti, Elisabetta Bosetti, Antonio Brandi, Silvana Brusati, Enzo Callà, Paola Carra, Piergiorgio Cavallini, Mario Cavaradossi, Maurizio Celani, Enrico Ciabatti, Dominic Ciancio, Herman Cole, Francesco Covelli, Giorgio Croci Candiani, Mattia Dal Bò, Francesca Deiana, Ivana Desantis, Paola Di Guiseppe, Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Alessandro Grussu, Joe Ieranò, Vincenzo Imerti, Valló Judit, Silvana Lai, Bruno Lannazzo, Gary Lord, Dario Luparello, Giovanni Macaluso, Lucio Maggioli, Maria Teresa Magliocco, Giorgio Marchisio, Gianfranco Martorano, Miro Mattei, Valeria Medvedeva, Fabio Melis, Brunero Meozzi, John Miles, Francesca Monacelli, Antonio Montessori, Marc Moreau, Marcello Notarianni, Maria Grazia Pagano, Jesenka Pahor, Stefano Paoletti, Sergio Pasquandrea, Pippo Pelo, Steve Pittelkow, Sara Polidoro, Andrea Pratesi, Alex Protsenko, Nino Rebellato, Paola Ristori, Umberto Saiani, Hugh Satow, Mauro Schmid, Paola Schmid, Niklaus Schreiber, Robert Scialla, Alberto Scirocco, Eleonora Secco-Dufault, René Sewuster, Guiu Sobiela-Caanitz, Giovanni Sonego, István Szökely, Katia Tagnocchetti, Thomas Unger, Riccardo Venturi, Turella Vicenzo, Giorgio Visintin, Joe Wilkinson, Rui Wippel, Pia Zammit, Albert Zani, Albert A. Zani, Patrick Zein, Patrick Zein
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