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@iconawrites
Italian artist living in England. Wife of @knightandicon
England, United Kingdom Katılım Kasım 2017
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me yesterday painting the most horrible mangoes to ever exist and ill try again next week
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A professional illustrator I admire a lot once told me, “The only people who get good at art are those who are willing to be absolutely, shockingly dreadful for a long time, and keep trying.”
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@iconawrites You're not absolutely, shockingly dreadful; you just have a killer instinct of what good art is - and it takes time before your skills catch up with your ambitions.
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@iconawrites Mastery demands resilience through failure, not talent alone, keep showing up
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@RealMissAI It takes strength to be bad at things and remain optimistic. That strength is vital.
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@iconawrites Mastery isn’t born from talent, it’s born from daring to suck spectacularly and refusing to quit.
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@iconawrites Exactly. Real skill has an ugly phase weak people can’t survive. Everybody wants the identity of being talented. Almost nobody can tolerate being embarrassingly bad long enough to earn it.
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@iconawrites Mildest Spanish swearing:
Me voy a cagar en toda tu puta raza, tus hijos, tus nietos, toda tu puta familia, la puta que abrió el coño para que saliese un engendro como tú, y que un elefante con sida te dé por culo hasta que te parta en dos
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I am Italian. I have been living in the UK for many years, but I still swear only in Italian. The British swear like innocent teens who’ve just discovered sex, whereas even the mildest Italian insult will make the receiving person feel humiliated for existing and having heard it.
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Japanese swear words are so childish "pig", "shit", "idiot", "die"... compared to the ruthless Mediterranean style that attacks at sexuality, honor, and the very existence of your entire family, nation, and God. Rarely does one hit you like a piece of genius literature.
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@iconawrites Ancora non so trovare un alternativa valida per capire l'incazzatura (e la gravità) che prova un romano quando ti dice "li mortacci tua!"
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"Salammbô with the sacred python."
#illustration by Suzanne-Raphaële Lagneau (1928), for 'Salammbô' by Gustave Flaubert.
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@haoreis Except no, not all cultures are the same! I’ve lived in the UK long enough to know that Italy values family far more (very common for UK people to be kicked out at 18, and have a relationship with their parents which I’d have with a neighbour). And lol, they don’t value food. 😂
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We need to add swearing to the genre of "things only my culture does" along with classics such as "food is very important in my culture" and "family is very important in my culture*
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I am Italian. I have been living in the UK for many years, but I still swear only in Italian. The British swear like innocent teens who’ve just discovered sex, whereas even the mildest Italian insult will make the receiving person feel humiliated for existing and having heard it.
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@iconawrites btw, how do you survive to UK food? Just been there (Liverpool): horrible!
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@iconawrites In France we have a pretty good variety of slurs and insults :)
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@iconawrites The translation from Italian to English of all those things my parents said to me when she was pissed at me would be enough to cause severe trauma for non-Italian children.
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@iconawrites @CrazyItalianPol Io ho detto “moete bruta t____” ad una che sembrava inglese, era veneziana 😅
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@_lucamarrone You have no idea how many British people I have heard complaining about their Dutch colleagues who are “too direct”. The Dutch sound great. 😂
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@iconawrites Come to the Netherlands, you’ll like our style😂
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@RobinNakamoto Dato che sono nata e cresciuta nel Veneto, questa la apprezzo. 😂
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@AlexConti1978 In inglese suona come la frase di un tredicenne che marina la scuola media per la prima volta.
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@iconawrites Ovvio che bestemmi in italiano, un bel Porcoddio suona troppo meglio di God damn it 😅🇮🇹🤌
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@iconawrites Nessun inglese potrà coniare frasi come:"la mejo anima de li mortacci tua e de tu nonno in cariola"
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