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Record W4380928684 · doi:10.3138/ctr.104.011

Cursing in Calabrian: A Brief Interview with Antonino Mazza

2000· article· en· W4380928684 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Anna Migliarisi

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Theatre Review · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLinguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTone (literature)ArtLiteratureLyricsWifePsychologyLinguisticsHistoryVisual artsPhilosophyTheology

Abstract

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Mazza: Calabrian abounds in semantic subtleties that determine the play’s distinctly piercing, at times hilarious soundscapes, which is really another way of saying that its tone and its very rhythm are content dependent. I can give you an example of the sort of challenge I faced in the trans- lation. The play opens with Raffaele cursing vehemently to himself, blaming his wife that his pen went missing Trying to emulate the verbal tone of the original through the customary Canadian English religious and sexual expletives would never do something much more horri- fying is going on in the original that dictates the pitch of Raffaele’s delirious rage. In essence, Calabrians’ favourite way of blaspheming is through the word “mannaia,” which refers to the implement the executioner used on the block to axe the head of the condemned. In other words, the mannaia is the axe or, roughly, the guillotine. Furthermore, in swearing, the Calabrian dialect turns the noun “mannaia” into a verbal imperative, so that when Raffaele says, “Mannaia tutti i riavuli ra maronna!” et cetera, he is literally giving the mad order to chop off heads. Therefore, in order to keep true to the pitch of his delivery, I had to translate a little of the content of his blas- phemies, which are veritable re-enactments of what Calabrians may have watched unjustly and bloodily in their collective tyrannical past!

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.450
Threshold uncertainty score0.895

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0250.011
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0040.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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