I'm another on the unoriginal bandwagon Phurst. P = Pearson (first name) hurst = Hurst (last name). Lots of people think it's Ph = f, or "first". I'll take that too I guess.
I am from Naples, Italy. I was born and raised most of my life there. Pescaiolo(pez-kai-o-lo, thats for Rob hehe ) means fisherman's apprentice or a young fisherman in Neapolitan, the dialect of Italian in Naples. I have always like the sea and when I was a young boy I would bother all the fisherman when my mother and father took me down to the waterfront. I always liked fish and fishing and pretty much anything that has to do with the water.
__________________ Clarence 55g sumpless mixed reef(soon to be 120g)
DSB(2 to 6 inches)aprox. 80 lbs,LR aprox. 60 t0 80 lbs.,Coralife 220 Protein Skimmer,CPR HOB Refugium with Fiji Mud Member of TRS Member of SDMAS
RIP Sarracino Ciro 12/16/04 - 4/3/08
In November of 2002, I switched to saltwater after doing freshwater since 1963. There was so much to learn! I was referred to a local fish board and since I was a rookie...I assumed the name Salt-Rookie! I had NO clue that I would always remain a rookie! There is JUST so much to learn and discover! I will ALWAYS remain a Salt-Rookie!!
I am from Naples, Italy. I was born and raised most of my life there. Pescaiolo(pez-kai-o-lo, thats for Rob hehe ) means fisherman's apprentice or a young fisherman in Neapolitan, the dialect of Italian in Naples. I have always like the sea and when I was a young boy I would bother all the fisherman when my mother and father took me down to the waterfront. I always liked fish and fishing and pretty much anything that has to do with the water.
I am from Naples, Italy. I was born and raised most of my life there. Pescaiolo(pez-kai-o-lo, thats for Rob hehe ) means fisherman's apprentice or a young fisherman in Neapolitan, the dialect of Italian in Naples. I have always like the sea and when I was a young boy I would bother all the fisherman when my mother and father took me down to the waterfront. I always liked fish and fishing and pretty much anything that has to do with the water.
I was close, I had interpreted it as little fish. Your old avatar gave away your Italian heritage. My husband is 2nd generation American and his family is from Carovilli, Isernia. But this all American mutt speaks/reads more Italian than he does.
I was close, I had interpreted it as little fish. Your old avatar gave away your Italian heritage. My husband is 2nd generation American and his family is from Carovilli, Isernia. But this all American mutt speaks/reads more Italian than he does.
You speak Italian and he doesn't? How does that work?
__________________ Clarence 55g sumpless mixed reef(soon to be 120g)
DSB(2 to 6 inches)aprox. 80 lbs,LR aprox. 60 t0 80 lbs.,Coralife 220 Protein Skimmer,CPR HOB Refugium with Fiji Mud Member of TRS Member of SDMAS
RIP Sarracino Ciro 12/16/04 - 4/3/08
His uncle started teaching me right after we got married 25 years ago. I already spoke passable Spanish (thanks to 4 years in HS and a couple in college), had several school friends whose families spoke Italian at home and had picked up a little while spending time with them and had learned a little Portuguese in college so you just had to keep the languages straight. We moved to NC a couple of years after we got married so there went my tutor and I can mostly only read Italian now. But, I think if you gave me a couple weeks where I had to use it, it would come back.
Mine is actually my nickname; I am a Doc and also play in a couple bands (Little Feat and Shocking Edison), therefore the name "RockDoc." My avatar is actually the graphic from our last Shocking Edison CD, entitled "Scientific Curiosity." (****warning - shameless plug follows*****) So if you're interested, check us out at shockingedison.com, and buy a couple hundred CD's for your friends!
Thanks, Jay
His uncle started teaching me right after we got married 25 years ago. I already spoke passable Spanish (thanks to 4 years in HS and a couple in college), had several school friends whose families spoke Italian at home and had picked up a little while spending time with them and had learned a little Portuguese in college so you just had to keep the languages straight. We moved to NC a couple of years after we got married so there went my tutor and I can mostly only read Italian now. But, I think if you gave me a couple weeks where I had to use it, it would come back.
That is awesome! Most people I meet here in the US don't even want to pretend to try another language! Looks like you learned not 1 or 2 but 3 different languages! I find Portuguese very weird sounding, like drunk Spanish hehe. I want to learn French, no real reason why, well maybe to be able to understand what all the French people in Italy say. :P Ho tanta felicita' che ho trovato una persona intelligente che gli piace impare lingue estraniere! Spero che un giorno viaggi in Europa e vedi le bellezze nostre.
__________________ Clarence 55g sumpless mixed reef(soon to be 120g)
DSB(2 to 6 inches)aprox. 80 lbs,LR aprox. 60 t0 80 lbs.,Coralife 220 Protein Skimmer,CPR HOB Refugium with Fiji Mud Member of TRS Member of SDMAS
RIP Sarracino Ciro 12/16/04 - 4/3/08
That is awesome! Most people I meet here in the US don't even want to pretend to try another language! Looks like you learned not 1 or 2 but 3 different languages! I find Portuguese very weird sounding, like drunk Spanish hehe. I want to learn French, no real reason why, well maybe to be able to understand what all the French people in Italy say. :P Ho tanta felicita' che ho trovato una persona intelligente che gli piace impare lingue estraniere! Spero che un giorno viaggi in Europa e vedi le bellezze nostre.
Grazie per le parole gentile. I am always inspired by our European exchange students who often speak several languages well. A couple of years ago we had a Finnish girl who, I think, was fluent in 3 languages and conversant in a couple of more. The guidance counselor at her American high school was shocked that not only did she want to continue to study Spanish and French she also wanted to take Japanese. I think that our American schools do a terrible job teaching languages. Everyone was so impressed that our son took 4 years of Spanish in high school and then made exchange. In our global society I think that should be the minimum! Of course I think it would all be so much easier if we learned in grammar school too.
A couple of years ago I got a buddy invite for one of the chat programs. The person's signature was not a name but a phrase that looked like really bad Spanish and was all about love. About the time I clicked block this person I realized that it was one of the Brazilian kids and it wasn't Spanish but Portuguese! LOL!
The guidance counselor at her American high school was shocked that not only did she want to continue to study Spanish and French she also wanted to take Japanese. I think that our American schools do a terrible job teaching languages.
Thats cause they try to encourage*cough*brainwash you folk into thinking that the world revolves around america dont they. woops...lol
Thats ok carmie, i understand, over here they treat me like everything revolves around me, rather than the country, so i kinda understand
My name means "Fire King" in cartoon speak
V, you are right. As a society we often feel that the world revolves around the good ole USA. I am very patriotic but I also know that I am a citizen of the world too.
You know, it is not that the schools here do a bad job teaching, the students who take a language receive fine instruction. The problem is iactually that we put no importance on learning another language. Most schools act like 2 years is enough but in 2 years of classroom study you barely learn to communicate.
If anyone cares to know, mine means: wakeboard freak! I love to wakeboard. So wakbrd= wakeboard and fr= freak. It is both put into one and broken down.
Mine is a concatenation of Marcel Duchamp's alter-ego "Rrose Sélavy", which was a play on the words "Eros, C'est la vie". Duchamp was an amateur chess player, which is why I chose the name sake for my foray into online chess. Now I use the name for almost all my logins.
My avatar icon is a photo of one of Duchamp's works entitled, "Why not sneeze, Rrose Sélavy", which (unlike an Aquarium) holds little water.
Phurst. P = Pearson (first name) hurst = Hurst (last name). Lots of people think it's 
) means fisherman's apprentice or a young fisherman in Neapolitan, the dialect of Italian in Naples. I have always like the sea and when I was a young boy I would bother all the fisherman when my mother and father took me down to the waterfront. I always liked fish and fishing and pretty much anything that has to do with the water. 
icon under their name to add to their reputation. 
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