HADENOUGHPIZZA

Its still ' scuola aperta '' here and I was at one yesterday with my daughter . The Head did not use a single word of english until he found himself talking about a course called ' videomaking '' which he then defined in italian . I was quite surprised !

MarkRD

..and to tell them they can't even produce any decent translators!

"extraordinary recruitment plan" .. "most burdensome rules" .. "the didactical offer " .."hired only via a public competition" .. .

....it's horrible.

duffer

My son plays ragby for the under-otto squadra.

MarkRD

Anything's better than 'regby'.

pugliese

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!

modicasa

Pugliese - you've got me. What did he mean?

Lorna at Vicenza

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

teejaydee

The attached image shows the front page from today's La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Lorna at Vicenza

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.

pugliese

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).

Lorna at Vicenza

I thought they were filled with sand. I don't know why. I just did.

pugliese

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!

Lorna at Vicenza

Could have done with a few of them round 'ere last week. My little lad got stopped on the cycle path by a Carabiniere whilst cycling to school and asked "where you off to son?" Alex didn't know if he was in trouble or not so just said, 'school'. The policeman then said, "if I take you across the road and onto this other back street do you know how to get to school from there?" Alex said he did. Why? Because there was an upturned car in the middle of the roundabout

MarkRD

I'm just wondering how he actually said that.

37100

They tend to fill them with sand in Turin because people have been known to drill a hole in the and move them. They do the same with 'panetonne'.