The power had been out for a couple of hours en el barrio silvestre, though we were able to maintain net connections via battery backups(i) and wifi hotspot provided by my Catepillar S22 with data uplink.
I turned to the woman and asked, "How do you say il capo di tutti capi in Yiddish ?"
She's no Jewess, but her father was a Venetian(ii) banker who raised her in Zurich. Thus, given her first language was Italian and third was German(iii) and since Yiddish is some three quarters German with the last quarter split between Semitic and Slavic, she was the best option around for me to ask ; plus, I knew she'd get a kick out of the question.
Her immediate reply as she laughed was, "Sara."
And wouldn't you know, a split second following the vibes leaving her mouth and reaching my ear, on turned the power. We shared a belly laugh for a good while on that one.
Anyways, in case you're wondering, further research uncovered that the "Kosher Nostra" or "Undzer Shtik" didn't organize like the Italians, so they didn't have any official equivalent to supreme capo. Nevertheless, a way to say it would be der groyser macher fun ale machers.
A gutn.
- It occured to me that during the imminent global economic depression innovative pimps will peddle portable backup battery packs rather than the traditional plant derived potions & powders.
Battery Lives Matter. [^]
- So La Serenissima was something we connected on right away as she knows the older and I know the newer. In fact, the Italian contact who introduced us did so because she was asking him about personal sovereignty and so he set us up. [^]
- Her second was French and she didn't really pick up English or Spanish until the 19yo version of her told her mother she was going to America to study English in Boston and once she landed solo explored a good chunk of the North and even the South, as in South America, specifically Venezuela. I shit thee not. [^]