Pointless English
#16
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Down our way thre seems to be a sudden burst of schools advertising 'open day'. Never seen them before, must have become fashionable; grandson is going to one today. Also this 'quantative easing'. I'm mother tongue English speaking, and don't know what it means really, imagine the average Italian. Sound about as uncomfortable as a large dose of laxative.
bye bye dicette l'inglese
bye bye dicette l'inglese
#17
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"extraordinary recruitment plan" .. "most burdensome rules" .. "the didactical offer " .."hired only via a public competition" .. .
....it's horrible.
#20
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Guardrails have been mentioned which brought back memories of a conversation I had with an Italian. He started to talk about the New Jersey (perfect pronunciation) in the road and not letting on I didn't know what he was on about, I had to go and google it!
#21
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Pugliese - you've got me. What did he mean?
#22
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Got me too so I Googled. They're the big concrete road dividers.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=je...w=1120&bih=565
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=je...w=1120&bih=565
#23
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The attached image shows the front page from today's La Gazzetta dello Sport.
#24
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I find it easier to accept English words in Italian when they're brand new and come from modern technology like 'download' 'router' and 'selfie' (though I dislike that word).
When I first arrived here there wasn't any English being bandied about and I had to learn Italian words for everything. People spoke about affari not business. They paid in contanti not cash. Girls used trucco and not make-up. A freezer was a congelatore and school kids caught the corriera not the bus.
When I first arrived here there wasn't any English being bandied about and I had to learn Italian words for everything. People spoke about affari not business. They paid in contanti not cash. Girls used trucco and not make-up. A freezer was a congelatore and school kids caught the corriera not the bus.
#25
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Actually he was talking about the plastic ones (red and yellow) which are filled up with water and used as barrier. Seems they were invented in New Jersey and hence the name (well in Italy, anyway).
#27
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Been on google again and it seems you can use either water or sand! The ones I saw were used on a testing track and filled with water because when the trials were finished, they just let the water run out and then loaded them back on the lorry to use them again somewhere else - would have been very heavy with all that sand still in them!
#28
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Been on google again and it seems you can use either water or sand! The ones I saw were used on a testing track and filled with water because when the trials were finished, they just let the water run out and then loaded them back on the lorry to use them again somewhere else - would have been very heavy with all that sand still in them!