Language is a funny thing. Here in Italy, for example, a Rombo is a fish. God has made the Rombo in just the right shape to fit a platter of the type Italians use to serve fish on. Imagine.
As the word “rombo” implies, the fish shape is practically a rhombus. We call it the fish a “turbot” so that geometry doesn’t enter the conversation.
However, in the US a Rombo can be quite a different thing. If you are partaking of the great American pastime of sitting and watching the television, you are likely to be subject to a great many advertisements. This time of year you will be rewarded with political advertisements—a bonus! One of the politicians has made an ad called “Rombo.” It is not about a fish. It is, evidently, about a man who has committed the egregious crime of actually doing something to reform health care in the United States, which we all know is perfect and the best in the world. (After all, we wouldn’t want to have a bad health care system which makes us live two years longer like you Italians. We couldn’t afford the health care if we lived so long!). The ad is titled “Rombo,” in a play on the action-movie hero popularized by Sylvester Stallone.
Anyway, here’s an Italian Rombo. It is not a television commercial:
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