Nicknames, nicknames and idioms are common everywhere in Sardinia, starting from the villages but also in cities such as Cagliari. In the past Cagliari was very small and the city was made up of what we know today as the four historic districts:

- Navy

- Print it

- Villanova

- Castle

It was a bit as if the four neighborhoods were actually four villages. The most important was the Castello district, where the military lived, there was the bureaucracy, where the political life of the city took place.

The inhabitants of the other neighborhoods had given nicknames to those who lived in the Castle:

- “Piscia tintéris”: “su tintéri”, from Sardinian into Italian, is the inkwell, i.e. the container in which the pen was soaked in ink (a clear reference to the activities of the political functions).

- "Piscia arrenconis": the translation of "arrenconi" is "corner".

Translating both expressions, they mean "inkwell urine" and "corner urine" respectively.

Let's find out why: "Piscia arrenconis" was used to indicate a dirty, unkempt person. “Piscia tintéri” instead was used to indicate what we usually call in Italian: imprettafogli, clerk, half sleeve.

This was because Public Administration employees worked in the Castle who, for the other citizens of Cagliari, were people of no value. "Piscia arrenconis" could derive from the fact that there were no public toilets in the Castle and every corner was good for urinating. Or it was simply a way of joking, of making fun of those who lived in the Castle, implying that they were incontinent.

The other nicknames will be announced on the social networks of Unione Sarda and Sardegna1 and on www.unionesarda.it .

(Unioneonline)

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