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Forum: Italy
Dec 4th 2023, 1:18 pm
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I've just looked at some old posts from 2 years back (# 1487) discussing how to ranslate "l'uomo della strada", If it's any help to anyone, the literal translation "the man in the street" is quite...
Forum: Italy
Nov 28th 2023, 6:47 am
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Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Agreed. I'd say "Could I have some cheese, please?" (assuming they didn't bring it automatically).

But terms like "grated Parmesan holder" you'd find in a retaurant supplies catalogue.
Forum: Italy
Nov 27th 2023, 7:32 am
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Whoops! Sorry about that - it did seem like a weird question!

I've found "Parmesan cheese holder" or "grated Parmesan holder".
Forum: Italy
Nov 26th 2023, 5:58 pm
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

We call a sugar bowl a sugar bowl because it is a bowl - that's its shape, For cheese I'd say "cheese board", or maybe "cheese platter" if I wanted to sound rustic and traditional.
Forum: Italy
Jul 11th 2018, 2:53 pm
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Well, "alibi" is just Latin for "elsewhere". If you were elsewhere you couldn't have committed the crime. Has that changed?
"Democracy" comes from the Greek "rule by the people". Everyone has their...
Forum: Italy
Jun 21st 2018, 3:19 pm
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

This came up in another thread, but it's more relevant here: the Italian Comune is the Town Hall, or the local council. Not the Commune, unless you're thinking of a hippy colony or some historic...
Forum: Italy
Jun 20th 2018, 7:32 am
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

"Regby cleb" isn't a Berlusconian invention; I've been puzzling over it for 42 years! The mystery is that

a) pronouncing a "u" as an "e" has nothing to do with either English or Italian phonetics...
Forum: Italy
Sep 19th 2016, 3:04 pm
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I've just been back and re-read a lot of old posts and see that I made the same point (about the value of learning grammar) twice! Going senile, I expect. No, but probably the second time I knew I'd...
Forum: Italy
Jun 17th 2016, 9:56 am
Replies: 1,507
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Most Italians don't understand it either and at least the film was shown with Italian subtitles. Isn't that option provided for the series?

If you want to find out about the camorra and Neapolitan...
Forum: Italy
Feb 9th 2016, 3:53 pm
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Of course! I don't know how I forgot about that one, it's the oldest and best established!
Forum: Italy
Feb 9th 2016, 1:47 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Sorry I'm late!
I don't see why "fare la pipì" is more infantile than "go for a pee"!
Still, I'm thinking of all those pseudo-polite expressions we have in English:
- I'm going to see the vicar
-...
Forum: Italy
Jun 3rd 2015, 4:16 pm
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Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I agree with the others. Avoid anything translatable as "piss off" (I'll grant you that you did say "politely").
Forum: Italy
May 22nd 2015, 4:01 pm
Replies: 1,507
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Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I'm eternally grateful to a teacher in my 2nd year of secondary school (age 12-13) who went through English grammar scientifically and made us see the point of what we were studying. I don't seem to...
Forum: Italy
May 21st 2015, 7:21 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Rough, dough, plough, through, cough, thorough! Six different pronunciations!
Yes, I don't think our lives would be empty or that we would die of boredom if we revised the spelling system. The...
Forum: Italy
May 21st 2015, 6:37 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Depends on what you're used to. I think that if English had developed differently you'd find it just as interesting as you do now. Here, though, we're not talking about English names but about how...
Forum: Italy
May 19th 2015, 9:41 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Found the "pie": π Actually the Italians are not blameless with Greek letters (the pronunciation, not the name). They make no distinction between θ (th) and τ or between χ (like a German ch) and κ. A...
Forum: Italy
May 19th 2015, 5:50 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

But I wouldn't be surprised if Italian journalists and politicians did start to import the English pronunciation of "alibi". Some do it with "media" (midia).
I had a discussion yesterday about the...
Forum: Italy
May 6th 2015, 12:10 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

The mispronunciations that annoy me on both sides are the ones that could easily be corrected. The correct pronunciations of ciabatta and latte should present no problem at all to English speakers....
Forum: Italy
Mar 24th 2015, 3:40 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

It's all a matter of image - if they used lemon no one would notice the difference... I hate cocktails anyway!
Forum: Italy
Mar 24th 2015, 2:37 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I've never seen "lime" translated as "cedro", I think that's wrong. The lime is small and green, while the cedro is yellow and looks like a large lemon, a bit more knobbly. "Citron" in English, I...
Forum: Italy
Mar 24th 2015, 2:09 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

Yes, "feud" is "faida", but "feudo" connects up reasonably well with "feudal". Actually as a child I knew the word "feud" and then, when we learnt about the "feudal system" at school, I though there...
Forum: Italy
Feb 12th 2015, 7:11 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

It would be better to have a complete sentence. Anyway...

I usually translate "prevede" as "envisages" or "provides for".
"sul piano penale" means something like "from the criminal law point of...
Forum: Italy
Jan 7th 2015, 1:47 pm
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Forum: Italy
Jan 7th 2015, 9:57 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

I think "studies based on TV series" sounds OK, but you can also say "some" or "various".
Forum: Italy
Jan 7th 2015, 9:21 am
Replies: 1,507
Views: 267,360
Posted By jonwel

Re: TALK THE TALK. ITALIAN LANGUAGE QUESTIONS.

"Media expert" sounds right to me. It's not a precise academic definition like "biologist" or "historian", it just means someone who's got himself noticed by writing a few books or articles...
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