Frasario romanesco inglese

• BREAD TO BREAD, WINE TO WINE - pane al pane, vino al vino
   
• WE ARE AT THE SHORT IRONS - semo a li ferri corti
   
• I TELL YOU POPELY POPELY - te 'o dico papale papale
   
• ARE YOU LOOKING THE HAIR- stai a guardà er capello
   
• WHEN IT WANTS, IT WANTS - quanno ce vo' ce vo'
   
• BUT MAKE ME THE PLEASURE - ma famme 'r piacere
   
• DON'T EXTEND YOURSELF - nun t'allargà
   
• NOT EVEN TO THE DOGS! - manco a li cani!
   
• BUT WHO MAKES ME MAKES IT - ma chi m'o fa fa'
   
• HOW DOES IT THROW? - come te butta?
   
• WHO WIRES YOU! - chi te se fila!
   
• WHO HAS BEEN SEEN, HAS BEEN SEEN - chi s'è visto s'è visto
   
• TODAY IT'S NOT AIR - oggi nun è aria
   
• BY FEAR! - da paura!
   
• GIVE IT TODAY AND GIVE IT TOMORROW - daje oggi e daje domani
   
• PLEASE RE-TAKE YOURSELF - aripijate!
   
• STAND IN THE BELL, LITTLE BROWN (DARK) - sta 'n campana, moro
   
• STAY BEEF - stai manzo
   
• I DON'T CARE OF LESS - nun me ne po fregà de meno
   
• WE ARE AT HORSE - semo a cavallo
   
• THERE ISN'T TRIPE FOR CATS - nun c'è trippa pe' gatti
   
• I'M SO HUNGRY THAT I DON'T SEE - c'ho 'na fame che nun ce vedo
   
• GO TO DIE KILLED - vammori ammazzato
   
• YOU ARE BASTARD INSIDE - sei bastardo dentro
   
• IT DOESN'T MAKE A FOLD - nun fa 'na piega
   
• I OPEN YOU IN TWO LIKE A MUSSEL -  t'apro 'n due come 'na cozza
   
• SPEAK LIKE YOU EAT - parla come magni
   
• I'VE MY LEGS THAT ARE DOING JAMES JAMES - c'ho le gambe che me fanno giacomo giacomo
   
• GIVE TO THE HEEL, GIVE TO THE TIP - daje de tacco, daje de punta
   
• YOU ARE OUT LIKE A BALCONY - stai fori come 'n barcone
   
• I LIVE IN HUNDRED CELLS - sto a Centocelle

Zero, though

This is a shower thought I will have to research - not a chance in the universe that was I the first to think about this.

Consider natural numbers as a counting device (and not as, say as an assiomatic system, or as points on line). As such, they are naturally attached units of measure - one pear, six aircraft carriers, two days. And, in set theory you can then take the set of sets having two of something as a definition of the number 2 (well, not quite, but almost).

Zero, though. Of course, one can use zero as a counting device: "I have one apple. I will eat it at lunch, and I will then have zero apples"

The notion of attaching measure units to "zero" (quite natural as you go form one apple to none) becomes rather strange as one considers the process of telling apart sets of equal numbered things.

Distinguishing between one elephant and one saxophone player is easy enough (assuming empty the set of saxophone playing elephants). What about telling apart zero apples from zero oranges?

Given an orange, and questioned about apples, I will count to zero, obviously. But, given the same orange, I will count to zero also if questioned about wine bottles, pencils, cars...

And of course,  the notion of "no things" is a gaping void (arh, arh).

So it looks that zero should be dimensionless -  a fact that set theory implicitly acknowledging the empty set as a member and subset of any set, while being unique.