Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- peccato
- Transliteration
- peccato
Sin
HIGH RISK: the extremely common colloquial idiom ‘che peccato!’ (‘what a shame/pity!’, used for trivial disappointments) is an Italian instance of the pan-European sin-word-drift-to-pity pattern also documented for Dutch and Swedish, and arguably even more pervasively embedded in everyday Italian speech.
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