Polari is a form of slang used in Britain by actors, circus and fairground showmen, criminals, prostitutes, and by the gay subculture. there is some debate about its origins, but it can be traced back to at least the 19th century, and possibly the 16th century.
eg.:
ajax - nearby (from adjacent?) / barney - a fight / bijou - small/little (French word for "jewell") / bona nochy — goodnight (from Italian "buona notte") / buvare - a drink (from Italian "bere" or old-fashioned Italian "bevere") / cats - trousers / cove - friend / dally - kind / meese - ugly (from Yiddish "meeiskeit") / meshigener - crazy / naff - awful / vogue - cigarette / zhoosh - style hair
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Leonardo da Vinci's to-do list:
- **the measurement of Milan & suburbs*
- a book that treats of Milan & its churches, which is to be had at the stationer's on the way to Cordusio
- the measurement of the Corte Vecchio (the courtyard in the Duke's palace)
+ the measurement of the Castello (the Duke's palace itself)
- *get Messea Fazio (a professor of medicine & law in Pavia) to show you about proportion
- *get the Brera Friar (at the Benedictine Monastery in Milan) to show you De Ponderibus (a Medieval text on mechanics)
- Giannino, the Bombardier, re. the means by which the Tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes (!?!)
- ask Benedetto Portinari (a Florentine merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders??*
- *draw Milan*
- *ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night
- the crossbow of Maestro Gianetto
- *find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard Mannersun
- the measurement of the sun, promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese
- *try to get Vitolone (the Medieval author of a text on optics) which is in the library at Pavia, which deals with the mathematic
eg.:
ajax - nearby (from adjacent?) / barney - a fight / bijou - small/little (French word for "jewell") / bona nochy — goodnight (from Italian "buona notte") / buvare - a drink (from Italian "bere" or old-fashioned Italian "bevere") / cats - trousers / cove - friend / dally - kind / meese - ugly (from Yiddish "meeiskeit") / meshigener - crazy / naff - awful / vogue - cigarette / zhoosh - style hair
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Leonardo da Vinci's to-do list:
- **the measurement of Milan & suburbs*
- a book that treats of Milan & its churches, which is to be had at the stationer's on the way to Cordusio
- the measurement of the Corte Vecchio (the courtyard in the Duke's palace)
+ the measurement of the Castello (the Duke's palace itself)
- *get Messea Fazio (a professor of medicine & law in Pavia) to show you about proportion
- *get the Brera Friar (at the Benedictine Monastery in Milan) to show you De Ponderibus (a Medieval text on mechanics)
- Giannino, the Bombardier, re. the means by which the Tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes (!?!)
- ask Benedetto Portinari (a Florentine merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders??*
- *draw Milan*
- *ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night
- the crossbow of Maestro Gianetto
- *find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard Mannersun
- the measurement of the sun, promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese
- *try to get Vitolone (the Medieval author of a text on optics) which is in the library at Pavia, which deals with the mathematic
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