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> some vowel-suffixed friends

Sorry for OT, but I've never seen this phrasing before. I assume from context that you mean the mafia, but why "vowel-suffixed"?



It's a way of saying "Italians" while trying to avoid appearing racist by directly saying it. Many Italian surnames end in a vowel.


It's called an allusion, and it has nothing to do with "avoiding appearing racist".


Good, because it didn't work -- you sounded kinda racist.


Would you have been less offended if he had just said "friends named Guido"?




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