Speaking Italian on the Sopranos

Ok…since I’m kinda hooked on this show…how do you spell and define some of the Italian “slang” they toss around…

This site is probably what you’re looking for.

Oh come now, you don’t have to be a mobster or affiliated with organized crime to talk like the folks on the Sopranos. You just have to be from New Jersey.
Every time I watch that show I get misty eyed and homesick. Nobody tawks like me out here.

We don’t all talk that way! I’m rather flat, accentwise, actually.

I used to live not five miles from Elizabeth (Union, down on Stuyvesant) and nearly everyone I knew talks like that and being out in the midwest has only reinforced the fact that I have an accent which I was blissfully ignorant of in the first place.
I adore it.

Wow, I’ve actually been down Stuyvesant. How long ago was this? I might have passed right by you.

I left New Jersey in July 2001. Hung around Union, Springfield, Millburn and Summit to a lesser extent. Went to school at Kean.

We probably bumped into one another then. I grew up in New Providence and spent a a considerable amount of time in Summit, where I was a volunteer at a local community-access cable station.

TV 36???

Yes, I know this topic is now horribly offtopic.

Yep, that’s the one. I was a cameraman/engineer/editor/director for them. I directed a segment of Thiry Legal Minutes for them once that won some kind of award. It was weird, because I just piped up with “I’ll do it” when the usual director was a no-show. I did the editing too, on that one. I remember their cameras too. Ah, Sony 1800s. Vidicon tubes were state-of-the-art back in the mid 80s.

I remember watching some murder mystery about twins done by high school kids on that channel, watching the computer slides while listening to the music. Whee! Weren’t they the ones who showed images of Neptune from Voyager II or am I thinking of TV 3?
Is the Union Plaza diner still open?

I dunno about anything that happened on TV36 after about 1987, but yeah, the Plaza Diner is still open, 24/7.