Garbatellamike

yes

duffer

No, that would be the 899 type of number. But she doesn't call me on that anymore

HADENOUGHPIZZA

Thanks

duffer

But you can call me anytime you want

HADENOUGHPIZZA

You'd probably make me pay for the pleasure ....

duffer

Yes on my chatline 899-DUF-FER.
The pleasure will be all yours.

Lorna at Vicenza

My dentist said that she might have to "devitalise" one of my teeth. Is that what we call a root canal in English? Isn't it a big job?

37100

Yes it is Lorna. Depends what you mean by big job. Drill and revitalise. Then back to have it closed if all looks good, if not another clean out. Then back for the filling. Not painful with injection.

Lorna at Vicenza

Bet it will cost a bomb as well. Hopefully this filling will hold out and I won't need a root canal. She also wants a full panoramic x-ray of Alex's mouth but she said that's only about 30 euro. Hope she's right.

Lorna at Vicenza

I think I have quite an extensive English vocabulary and know I don't have as much vocab in Italian. Probably because I don't read nearly half as much in Italian as I do in English, never studied here and most of the people I know seem to use the same adjectives day in and day out for anything and everything.

I have an ache. A dull, slightly annoying, constant ache that isn't painful. It's not a dolore or a male as such. I know how to describe a stabbing pain, a sharp pain, a needle like pain, a throbbing, pulsating pain but, I'm thinking of ways to describe the dullness of this ache. I know I could use several different sentences to explain how it's just always there in the background, not stopping me from doing anything and I'm not even taking any pain killers but, something a bit more concise would be handy.

What would you say? Un dolore costante e non acuto?

HADENOUGHPIZZA

I'd go for dolore sordo ? where is it ?

Lorna at Vicenza

Back. Left side and up towards shoulder. I'm pretty sure that it's just from sleeping badly and crookedly recently and spending a few nights curled up on my left side sleeping on the sofa.

OH is away now for 10 days and I have a big bed to myself with nobody snoring in it so I think this ache will probably go away after some decent rest on a good mattress. Sometimes I just think aloud to myself in English and wonder how I'd say that in Italian. Even Chloe has started doing it and sometimes says things like,

"Mummy, what's self concious in Italian?" "How would you sarcastically say 'it's not rocket science' in Italian?"

HADENOUGHPIZZA

not sure about self conscious but the other one is '' non siamo mica alla NASA ''

HADENOUGHPIZZA

I've reached the point where I worry ( not out loud ) about how to say things in English.

maybe you need to do some stretching excercises ? Do you have one of those WII thingies ..

Lorna at Vicenza