Non é sempre semplice mantenere l'identitá culturale di un popolo quando i tempi della globalizzazione incalzano. Cosí, per affrontare la lingua globale senza perdere le radici del dialetto, ecco lo slang triestino di ogni giorno tradotto in inglese...

detti & proverbi...

• ciacole no fa fritole = chats make no pancakes
• xé piú giorni che luganighe = there are more days than sausages
• pian e ben = slowly & well
• grasso el dindio = fat the turkey
• ridi ridi che mama ga fato gnochi = laugh laugh that mom made germans
• Dio no xè furlan... = God is not wine with campari
• ...se no'l paga ogi, el pagherá doman = if it doesn't pay today it will do it tomorrow
• viva là e pò bon = live there and after good

a scuola...

• doman niente scola = two hands nothing drips
• i me ga da sete in condota = they gave me thirst in water pipe
• no go capì una madona = i didn't understand a virgin Mary
• no go alba = haven't sunrise
• son andà in oca = i went into goose
• pico de sono = peak of sleep

a tavola...

• moro de fame = coloured of hungher
• a boca desidera = at motouth wishes
• pan integrale = 4-wheel drive bread
• fate un panin de volpe = have a fox sandwich
• una piadina de fasoi = a gentle kick of beans
• luganighe de cragno = skull sausages
• rognon = really big trouble
• rosolá in farsora = browned in make over
• formaio feta = feet cheese
• canditi = dog fingers
• un nero e un capo = a nigger and a boss
• un gocia e un coreto = a drop and a small choir
• culinaria = ass in the air

al mare...

• xè mareta = it's little mother
• ocio a no negarte = eye not to deny yourself
• me son butà a piron = i threw me forklike
• go fato una dorada = i made a gold-plated
• rota nord ovest = broken north west
• gá strambá = it bizarred
• guati = fucked
• dondoli = swings
• girai = turned-about
• ociade = glares
• moli = docks
• dondoli = swings
• parenzo = It seems enzo
• vado a portorose = i go to take roses

affari & finanza...

• no go pila = i haven't torch
• caga la pila = shit the battery
• caccia a pila = hunt the battery
• semo pari = we are fathers
• cinquecentomila col sconto = fivehundredthousands with the hidden
• massa caro = mass dear
• el me ga netà l'orto = he cleaned my vegetable garden
• millenovecento e ciapilo = nineteen houndred and catch it
• impiegato = Stand up, cat

auguri...

• boni ovi = good eggs
• che Dio te daghi = that God gives you

imprecazioni...

• el fa el mona per no pagar el dazio = he does the cunt to skip custom fees
• el mato tazza = the crazy cup
• orca malora = killer whale bad hour
• teston de grota = big head of cave
• no te guanto = i don't glove you
• no te guanto più = night glove more
• ma va a reMengo = but go to king Mengo
• testa de baciro = cucumber head
• no slargarte = don't extend yourself
• te zerchi longhi? = Are you looking for longs?
• ma fame el piazer = but make me the pleasure
• meza lana = half wool
• bona lana = good wool
• taza anime = cup souls
• se te guanto te copo = if i glove you i tile you
• vaca mastela = cow but star
• su mare vaca! = up sea cow!
• tu mare grega = you sea greek
• fata la xè = fairy she is
• ciavite = key yourself
• xè vegnù fora cine = movie came out
• xè un fredo boia = it's hangman cold
• sti cazzi! = these dicks!
• ostia, za le due! = particol yellow two!
• son pien come una mina! = I'm full like a bomb!

frasi utili...

• sera la porta = evening the door
• sera i scuri = evening the darks
• sera la spina che scola = evening the thorn that school
• sera le persiane = evening the iranian women
• sera tuto = evening all
• dame pase = give me peace
• fa un momentin de mente locale = make a small moment of slow-train mints
• mola tuto = spring everything
• bloca i manzi = stop the oxen
• ocio de soto = eye of downside
• a ocio e crose = to eye and cross
• scampo via = shrimp road
• fazzo un scampon = i make a big shrimp
• no xé dito = it's not finger
• no xé dito = nut finger
• tropa roba = too much thing
• cossa nassi? = what's born?
• ben per ti = well for you
• un poco de quel che se ciama = a little bit of that it takes name
• te bati ben = it knock you well
• el fa el suo = it does its
• go ciapá una calda = i gotta hot
• tuto iuta = all juta
• va a savér = go to know
• vado insieme = i'm going together
• son andá insieme = i went together
• robe de ciodi = things of nails
• drio man = behind hand
• poco via = a little street
• a gamba fasul = at bean leg
• se vedi pena pena = you see it pain pain
• che nove te me conti? = what nine do you count me?
• el sta in un quartierin in primo pian = he stands in a small district in first slowly
• milenovecento e ciapilo = nineteenhundred and catch it
• l'omo vespa = the scooter man
• el riva doman = he shore two hands
• dove te ieri? = where you yesterday?
• se vedemo ogi oto = see us today eight
• ma fame rider = but hungher laugh
• mai de meio = never of better
• papagal! che ora xè? = urinal! what time is it?
• tuto el giorno a bater carte = all the day beating papers
• Basovizza = Kissvizza
• el xè andà insieme = he went toghether
• xè vegnù fora cine = movie came out
• xè un fredo boia = it's a hangman cold
• me se sta iazando i sentimenti = my feelings are freezing
• xè un mato colo = he's a crazy neck
• el xè spudà de su mare = he's spit up of sea
• el fa i suoi porchi comodi = he makes his pigs comfortable
• la magna memoria = she feeds on RAM
• go le scarpe nove = my shoes are nine
• el se ga piturà col motorin = he painted himself with the small engine
• me ciamo fora = my name is outside
• te son fora come un pergolo = you're out like a terrace
• guai se te caschi = troubles seven helmets
• guai se te scampi = troubles seven prawns
• cos'che no' ga de esser la natura = what hasn't to be the nature
• el se ga stampà co'l motorin = he printed himself with a small-engine
• cantoni = anthony dog
• gatabuia = dark cat