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Toni Jeffrey's avatar

Feel free!

I didn't mention that I happen to be full-blooded Sicilian. And boy, can we talk, with our voices and our gestures...

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Toni Jeffrey's avatar

This is beautiful! Thank you!

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Anna Trombley's avatar

What a great story - a parable.

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Some Guy's avatar

I know, right?

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Daniel Williams's avatar

And here I thought the only good Italian was a …. Ok bad joke.

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Toni Jeffrey's avatar

No, the only good Italian is a Sicilian, lol.

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Some Guy's avatar

Using this

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Some Guy's avatar

My favorite is to “fix” everyone’s name to an English equivalent.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Extremely cool story.

Damn it. My German sister won't allow me to repeat a story more than twice without stopping me. OTOH, she's mad if I stop her after the 10th time. She tells me I won't listen.

But if that's the worst problem I have, I have no problems.

TYPO: WOLD instead of WOULD.

My proofreading secret: I have my computer read everything to me and I hear the mistakes long before I could spot them. Brian is my favorite Microsoft reading voice.

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Some Guy's avatar

One day I will typo free

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

When I publish on Substack, I sometimes have typos. It is the way of all flesh... Here's another thought. Before the publication of Johnson's Dictionary in Britain and Webster's in the United States, there was literally no standard spelling in any language on the planet. Maybe you could reinstate that non-standardization in a sci-fi reality.

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Some Guy's avatar

I’ve been reduced to phone typing during bath time so hard to focus on the totality.

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