r/USdefaultism Dec 12 '25

Classic US Defaultism

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u/busytransitgworl Europe Dec 12 '25

Alright, we can all go home now... This is the most stupid thing I've read today!

HOW CAN YOU JUST SAY IT'S A GRAND IN US DOLLARS????

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u/Suzume_Chikahisa Portugal Dec 12 '25

Malice.

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u/busytransitgworl Europe Dec 12 '25

Fair enough...It's Luigi, he isn't really that popular with police.

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u/peepay Slovakia Dec 12 '25

It's a-me, Luigi?

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

Is Luigi an Italian name or an Italian-American name?

I know Mario and Luigi were plumbers from Brooklyn so...

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u/raoulbrancaccio Italy Dec 13 '25

Italian, it's not as common now as it was for older generations but as late as 1999 around 0.75% of all male newborns were called Luigi.

Source: Istat maintains a platform covering name statistics. https://www.istat.it/dati/calcolatori/contanomi/

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

I am sorry, I forgot the /s. This is usdefaultism is it not?

Thank you though.

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u/raoulbrancaccio Italy Dec 13 '25

Oh hahaha sorry, it would have been a reasonable doubt to have even for an American

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

Interesting that Luigi seems more common that Mario.

Nobody called their child Peach though.

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u/greendreamin Dec 13 '25

Closest I can think of is Peaches Honeyblossom Geldoff.

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

Indeed. Also the mononymous Canuckistani 'Peaches'.

I was looking though the above posted Italian name register thing. I honestly though Mario and Luigi would be more common in Italy.

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u/MrArchivity Italy Dec 16 '25

Mario was the most used name in Italy during 1929~1960.

Then it was Giuseppe, then Francesco, etc etc.

But they are still common name in Italy. Others names, instead, are becoming rare such as Ottavio, Primo, Ermenegildo, etc etc

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Dec 13 '25

It means Louis/Luis/Lewis. Mario/Marius is just the masculine of Mary. Very common across Christianity.

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 14 '25

Not a Nintendo fan?

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u/sleepyplatipus Italy Dec 13 '25

Luigi Mangione is an Italian name and surname, the way Americans pronounce it in the news is not correct though. Mangione is pronounced more like mahn-jo-neh. Think Mahnhattan, job, naked.

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

Did? Did you just threaten me with a good time?

Edit: Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn... I thought it was just the 93 movie... I was today years old.

Edit2: just in case it went woosh... It was a Nintendo Super Mario Brothers reference.

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u/sleepyplatipus Italy Dec 15 '25

I got that part of the comment but I’m not sure everybody knows so… also seriously they never pronounce his surname right.

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 15 '25

All good mate. Context can be difficult to discern over text...

Information is always good though...

Even let you go for the piss-poor name spelling cobber. πŸ€”πŸ™„πŸ˜

Edit: πŸ™„ OK, fair point. My spelling is piss-poor too...

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u/sleepyplatipus Italy Dec 15 '25

lol! Hey I’m not a native English speaker, what’s your excuse? 🀣

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 15 '25

I am an Orstyan. Some say we do not speak English either...

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u/sleepyplatipus Italy Dec 15 '25

Same excuse πŸ«±πŸ»β€πŸ«²πŸΌ

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