Italian-American mobsters have now also adapted the "La" thing? You got to be kidding me.
Sounds retarded, doesn't it? It's like saying "the our thing".
FBI still uses it. I wonder if they will ever get around to fixing that?
Totally. And nothing for nothing, but from what it sounds heaps of American LCN guys embrace the term. I thought it was the Sicilians that made a point of dropping the "La".
It is grammatically incorrect in Italian (like I said, in Italian it sounds like "the our thing"). I'm guessing the American guys who use it don't know the Italian language all that well. The Sicilians would have never said "la" to begin with.
I think the FBI may have actually been the first to use the "la", but I'm not sure why. Nonetheless, the mistake seems to have become permanent.
