Blonde Moment # ∞
So in my Italian Cinema class this evening we watched this 1934 movie called The Iron Crown. This one character, Elsa, kept saying "Go away! Go away!" As an Italian language major, I was happy to learn a new expression and logged it away in my memory.
On our way out of class, Kellie, Deirdre and I were talking about the movie. Both studying the language, Kellie and I brought up some of the mistranslations we had caught, and some of the expressions we heard. "Go away" came up.
Despite the fact that I had heard the character say the expression over and over so many times, it never dawned on me what it was she was literally pronouncing.
It wasn't until I actually said it aloud myself, that I realized something familiar.
"Fa via! Fa via!"
Today I learned a new expression.
I also learned the meaning to my last name.
p.s.- if you look up the meaning to my first name, it means "weary" in Hebrew. Aren't I the most wonderfully, positively named person you ever met?