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"i never intended to hurt everyone," etheridge said. "i cut and stabbed gail with a little bitty pocket knife."
"non avevano intenzione di ferire nessuno,"ha detto etheridge. "ho ferito e accoltellato gail con un piccolo coltellino svizzero".

compare itty-bitty, whisper, tinkle, twitter, beep, screech, chirp, with humongous, shout, gong, clatter, crash, bam, growl, rumble; or spanish mujercita ‘little woman’ with mujerona ‘big woman’. cecil adams took advantage of this pattern when he commented, on the subject of penis enlargement surgery, that “if nature has equipped you with a ding rather than a dong, you’ll just have to live with it.” exceptions aren’t hard to find, of course— notably small and big. inventing alien languages, authors also simply make use of what we might call phonetic stereotypes.
confronta itty-bitty, whisper, tinkle, twitter, beep, screech, chirp, con humongous, shout, gong, clatter, crash, bam, growl, rumble; o lo spagnolo mujercita 'piccola donna' con mujerona 'grande donna'.