Friends & Family Continued
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| During the 1965-1989 years in Milano, the dining room enjoyed a natural extension to the downstairs restaurant, first Lorino (Neda: "He gambled every single spoon away!"), then Toscanino. This were the best years in the Janigro's digestive memories also due to the fact that owing to a series of fortunate coincidences the chief waiter of this luxurious restaurant first dated and then married a maid from the Sheischelles, employed for many years by the Janigro's. This lead to a slight improvement in dietary intake, but added a linguistic twist to the already complicated routine of daily life. Routine was a big things for the Janigro's, at least for most of their days for nights could be unpredictable indeed. There were rules: Always eat in the same restaurants, choices were the aforementioned Toscanino (or his short lived predecessor the Gambler), a couple of pizzerias and a lethal combo of Italian fast-food (sic!) and Chinese food called Il Piccolo Riscio'. Needless to say, these were all at short distance from home, and the reason for choosing one over the others were either weekly rest days or other factors ("we ate there for the last several weeks, let's change"). |
| Linguistic confusion. For reasons that are still not well understood, the Janigros never settled on one single language. At the end, when most of her vital functions were decimated by a long illness, Neda started to merge all the glossas in a single idiom, almost as transported from a Garcia Marquez. Perhaps to imitate the parents, their young children started to literally invent a new language, of which only the world "quancholium", of unknown meaning, is still sometimes used. It is hard to consider these Babelians linguistically sluggish, and yet the Janigros produced a wealth of figures of speech, usually a couple of worlds sometimes in inhomogeneous idiom, to condense a story. Needless to say that these were not understandable to the most. |
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