Confession about men.

Actually "capiche" is the correct spelling of the English slang word which was derived from the Italian word capisci.

I have a further confession about men. You know that thing where we always leave the toilet seat up? yeah, that's on purpose. Sorry. We're a bunch of dicks, you know?

Um, no.

How bout a kiss boy? What's wrong with a kiss? How bout a kiss before we go stampeding towards the clitoris?

Urban Dictionary has both spellings. Shrug.

According to this site, umm yes.

And just out of curiosity what should be put in Babelfish? Because none of the translations I tried came up with that result.



[Edited on Aug 16, 2005 by squee]

It also has "coppish, kabish, capeesh", which are all phonetic spellings, just like capische. I know, it's kitchen Italian, so you should be able to spell it however you want, but that doesn't mean it's the right spelling by any stretch.

I'm also assuming that you knew capisce meant, simply, 'understand'- which I guess probably isn't the case.

No.

I'll say it in Italian, too.

No.

There's also all of these spellings from examples given in the OED:

But only one etymology:

My point was that Babelfish translates Capisce as "It understands" and Capisci as "you understand". It seems to me that when americans use the slang word they mean you understand, not it understands, which supports that sites etymololical argument.

And, if I remember my history of Italian American slang correctly, dropping the final vowel of capisce (in such a way that the capische spelling makes sense) is a common trait in Neapolitan and Sicilian, the two Italian languages, or dialects depending on your politics, that had the largest emigration to places like New York.

It's the third person singular, but also the second person formal conjugation. I dunno why Babelfish can't handle that kind of complexity, but there you go.

Shit - nah, I didn't mean it the way you read it, Clara, probably closer to Thistle's understanding.

What person wouldn't like a bit of casual sex0r from time to time? The particular variety that this guy would offer, though, is not something I'd deem worthy of being called 'sex' at all.

Doesn't do it for me, but I can imagine it might be thrilling for someone out there, to be treated like this guy would treat them... but to me it sounds like the difference between a rape fantasy, and actual rape. This charming young fellow would offer something that was more legitimately hurtful (or just plain boring) than pleasurable, simply because it's real.

Also, depends if you mean 'casual' as 'sex without emotional attachment/relationship' or 'casual' as in 'sex conducted in a physically flippant and selfish manner', like 'meh, let's root. okay, yeah - nah, okay, I've just come. Hey - the news is on'.

For the record - I'm damaged, myself. It's not that bad; not that bad at all.

[Edited on Aug 16, 2005 by Deelishus_Weenie]

Oh Jesus Christ, you guys would get your meatballs complete stomped in my neighborhood with this on and on nonsense.

By the grandmothers.

Capisici, "(Do) you understand?" is pronounced capeesh. Its a fucking idiom, the exact same idiom, in fact as if you merely said "You understand?" in English.

Capische is still however, not a remotely valid spelling and capisce is still pronounced capeesheh and is not the proper part of speech here and has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

Okay, this one? Yes, ladies, it's true. Just a small act of rebellion to get back at all the women who laughed at us when we asked them to the school dance in eighth grade.

Not to put a spin on people incorrectly spelling or pronouncing a word, effectively massacring a language... it is spelt Colour.