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Forum: Italy
Jan 14th 2016, 2:27 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

And fare la pipi of course, which always sounds so damn infantile to me that i worry about any adults using it. I could imagine the madonna using it before a quick break. In english, amongst friends...
Forum: Italy
Jul 17th 2015, 8:05 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Thanks for the reply maybe1day, but i am not sure what you mean by that. Are you saying i could just use the "english" word and it would be recognised? Background to my question - i would be using...
Forum: Italy
Jul 17th 2015, 6:47 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Question from an outsider here, so can't pop into town to check a chinese menu - though of course they might not be the best guide if they are trying to ingratiate themselves with nervous wary...
Forum: Italy
Mar 25th 2015, 5:04 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Thanks Mark and all for the encouraging stuff on the past perfect.

Can't see me using it much.

I have no intention of straining for bella figura by chucking it into sentences preceeeded by a...
Forum: Italy
Mar 24th 2015, 8:49 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Thanks folks. Please keep the replies coming on this point (and say where you are based if not clear from your profile).

Replies encouraging so far

If it iS mostly used in literature/certain...
Forum: Italy
Mar 24th 2015, 8:25 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Am progressing/brushing up the italian studies and have hit what i have been trying to avoid - the past remote.

A real pig of irregularity.

I am aware that usage of this in normal conversation...
Forum: Italy
Dec 8th 2014, 11:56 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Quite - I came to the conclusion (folks shoot me down if they want) that lawyers are the new priests. Both delighted/delight in the fact that their texts (priests a load of dusty old sermons that...
Forum: Italy
Dec 7th 2014, 9:08 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Well yes there are limits.

I well remember a spectacular case from Esther Ranzen's consumer That's Life TV street interviews.

One woman (possibly of Indian extraction - can't remember) kept...
Forum: Italy
Dec 7th 2014, 9:03 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

>>Because "its" is a pronoun and not a saxon genitive. Grammar again.

You are clearly very clever primula but I can assure you that hardly anyone in Britain would have a clue what a saxon genitive...
Forum: Italy
Dec 5th 2014, 8:50 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

well spotted primula.

It's a very easy slip to make though when writing a sentence - not because someone doesn't know the difference between the two but because of the way the mind runs on. I do...
Forum: Italy
Dec 5th 2014, 8:44 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Yep, English is stuffed full of such words and it causes no great problems.

Perhaps though isshin, tortured as he/she is by the potential confusion between the words for "I will do" and...
Forum: Italy
Dec 4th 2014, 6:37 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

:)

Great comment.

The avoidance of such needless complication, apart from accidents of recent (ie last 300 years) is surely one of the reasons english has conquered the world.

I am well...
Forum: Italy
Dec 1st 2014, 7:31 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Probably very sensible when it comes to your own language though of course it makes learning others a bit of a shock to the system. Which still doesn't make it misguided.

As for pronunciation of...
Forum: Italy
Dec 1st 2014, 7:15 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Yes, caused much amusement to teenage schoolboys along the lines of "I thought I was doing something wrong" .

Are we going to get an answer on what the retailer thought he was referring to?
Forum: Italy
Nov 29th 2014, 5:32 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

What did he sell. What did he think it meant?
Forum: Italy
Nov 28th 2014, 6:02 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Yes i did.

Why is this?

I met a very interesting Italian writer and editor in London recently (he lives in italy) who was talking about this lack of words limiting italian thought patterns....
Forum: Italy
Nov 28th 2014, 5:51 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Just popped to this thread for language tips and found that it's a cave of sleaze :)

Working backwards through it.

Italy can be odd.

In a motorway (ok SS - no autostrade in sardinia) service...
Forum: Italy
Nov 28th 2014, 5:45 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Ah the old italian we don't do that/don't need that. :)

I can only think that the bizarre italian usage is something to do with more regard for grammar. They should know that free-wheeling brits...
Forum: Italy
Nov 28th 2014, 5:40 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Maybe Italian sex shops are a bit behind the times.

They are fairly recent in Cagliari I think and one in the centre is called Porkys of all things. I can't imagine many couples being tempted in...
Forum: Italy
Oct 29th 2014, 7:57 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I was recently delighted to learn from a news article that there is an italian verb "snobbare".

Is this derived from the English?

If so, how/when?
Forum: Italy
Sep 10th 2014, 7:20 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 268,957
Posted By sunnysider

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Can some kind soul tell me what the word "rebus" means as used in Italy?
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