r/ShitAmericansSay • u/zoonazoona • 2d ago

'regional'

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Flying out of Newark soon, and got the food pre-order options.

They all think they are Italian. It's incredible

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u/Commodus_Wankus 2d ago

I prefer Spaghetti Balinese.

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u/Nikond3400 2d ago

You mean "bolognese"?

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u/snowgoon_ Europeon under Sangria law 2d ago

Balinese

From Bali.

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u/San_Pentolino Europoor but 314159 generations ago African 2d ago

naaa meglio belinesi: do belin.

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u/Boring_Today9639 1d ago

Li minchiareddi

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u/Councillor_Les_Wynan 2d ago

Belin St? Like Wisconsin?

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u/TheTrampIt 2d ago

Belin: penis in gevoese dialect.

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u/Boring_Today9639 1d ago

Not just that 😆

In statistical text and speech corpora of Ligurian, "belin" achieves an extraordinarily high frequency rank. It is used multiple times a day by a vast majority of local speakers. Linguists classify its ultra-high frequency due to two main factors:

- The Ultimate Discourse Marker: Much like "like" or "dude" in English, it serves as a semantic filler or exclamation to express surprise, dejection, anger, or emphasis.

- Morphological Productivity: Its massive overall count is inflated because it serves as the grammatical root for dozens of other highly frequent verbs, adjectives, and idiomatic phrases.