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I've travelled quite a lot in the top half of Italy over the decades for both work and pleasure - Milan, Venice, Florence, Siena, Verona, Bologna, Pisa, Parma.
by logifail 1y ago
I've travelled quite a lot in the top half of Italy over the decades for both work and pleasure - Milan, Venice, Florence, Siena, Verona, Bologna, Pisa, Parma.
I would suggest that from the outside it could be easy to underestimate just how seriously (many) Italians take their food.
Last year - as a family, on the way somewhere else - we visited a "factory" that makes Parmesan cheese. It's astounding how much work and time goes into making a product that, although it's of course produced "on mass", feels anything other than mass produced.
- MarcelOlsz 1y ago>"on mass" En masse?
- oguz-ismail 1y agosame difference
- chielk 1y agoSeem difrens
- mannycalavera42 1y agosé difez
- stonemetal12 1y agoNot really "in mass (quantities)" would mean large amounts produced, "on mass" means the factory sits on a very large rock. "en masse" is French for "in mass" not "on mass" so completely different.
- oguz-ismail 1y agoit's just one letter no big deal
- fsckboy 1y agoyes, but to be fair, for an english speaker, en masse is pronounced more like "on mass" than like "en mass". to be more french, say "awning" but lose the entire "-ning" part, and then "mass", like the "a" in father, not the "a" in cat.
- logifail 1y ago> En masse? My French is just fine - merci beaucoup - yet unfortunately yet another HN thread gets distracted from the intention of a post by someone determined to focus on semantics :/
- gowld 1y agoPP was asking to clarify your English, not your French, so that readers could understand what you were trying to express with your neologism.
- logifail 1y ago> PP was asking to clarify your English, not your French, so that readers could understand... (This is the first time I've had this on HN) but I have no idea what you mean. Is someone really not understanding? It looks like they're trying to correct what I wrote :/ It's a product produced in quantity, but not “mass-produced”.
- eschaton 1y agoThere is no English expression “on mass.” The expression used by English speakers are the French words _en masse_.
- ameliaquining 1y agoThe point is, assuming that we all knew what the original commenter meant—and I think we did—it's rude to correct their usage. This has been basic netiquette since Usenet.
- PeterWhittaker 1y agoMakes me think of those who pronounce "coup de grâce" as "coupe de gras". Ew. Once I tried pointing this out. The speaker said "it doesn't matter". Sure, bud, enjoy your lard. Ew.
- mr_00ff00 1y agoRIP south Italy, where the pizza actually came from.