Okay, the Princess Bride Sword Fighting Scene. There's all this stuff going on and it's really fun and everybody likes to quote it, but when they get to the part where they actually talk shop about fencing as they dole atop the cliffs of insanity, people quoting this at parties, we just fill it in with

words because we don't actually know what they're referencing or what they're saying.

The same way whenever we sing the circle of life from the beginning of the Lion King,

everybody just makes up their own phrase,

Ma, sph-do, and it just works.

We all fill it in in our brain.

But the actual dialogue there has Enigo Montoya saying,

you're using Bonetti's defense against me,

and then Wesley says,

I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain.

Naturally, you must suspect me to attack with Capofaro.

Naturally, but I find that T-Balt cancels out the Capofaro't you? And then they jump around and stuff and Inigo says,

unless the enemy has studied a Griper, which I have.

I've heard a couple of these names before,

but I had to Google all of this stuff to sort it out.

So Rocco Bonetti is a 16th century Italian sword master who had some kind of defense that he liked to use

and everybody thought it was completely pathetic and so it makes sense that they

open with this Bonetti defense even though they would both know that that doesn't really go anywhere.

It's easily countered.

The next name they reference is Capofaro. Rodolfo Capofaro, another Italian swordmaster, was a linear fighter and he popularized the lunge.

Then, as they start to change elevation, they reference this Gerard T-Balt guy.

He was Dutch and he was a big fan of apparently the whole high-ground thing.

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