Lorna at Vicenza

[QUOTE=kimilseung;9575861]I have heard and used critique, long before I came to America.

Everyday life? When you said on reality TV, I assumed you were talking about cooking and fashion competition shows, in such shows I would expect to hear the word. Can you give examples what you mean in everyday life?[/QUOTE]

I mean people who say things like :

"sorry for the critique.
Don't let me critique you
Did you critique her?
Did you get a good critique?


etc. etc. etc

Lorna at Vicenza

It isn't actually darling.

The Italian alphabet does not have a K.

What they have is a C followed by any vowel making it a soft letter.


Any letter followed by a consonant becomes a HARD letter.


That's why CIAO is CHOW and Bruschetta is BRUSKETTA.

Sally Redux

German words are nearly always pronounced wrongly in both the UK and US.

As I've studied the language, it grates, but little point trying to change it.

nethead

Oh dear I'll be getting my bruschetta mixed up with my focaccia and my ciabatta, and no American will be able to understand my attempts at Italian.

Lorna at Vicenza

Too right ... I mind less about FoKacha and CHAbatta because it's still fairly new-

I still hate RiZ-Oat- oh and I detest Brushetta instead of BrusKETTA:


And all these so called Italo- Americans are SO SO SO proud of their heritage and roots and so forth ......


1. Get the ****ing accent right.
2. Stop prentending you are all in the Sopranos
3. Speak Italian properly.
4. You are not Mafia and you'll never be.
5- Stop pretending all Italo-Americans have to be loud and talk loud and be loud because real Italians are not like that.

nethead

Lorna are you in a bad mood tonight?

kimilseung

I imagine that they do sound a bit odd in regular conversation

Have you been watching Jersey Shore?
How is it going over in Italy, I am assuming it has had some coverage.

Lorna at Vicenza

Bless you all for thinking of my welfare and not just slagging me off as an idiot.

It's bloody boiling here - unexpected heat and it's 39° C at bed time.

I promise I'm not suicidal or physchopatic but I am out of my mind with this heat xxx

Lorna at Vicenza

and I truly and absolutely hate ERBS !!!!!!

kimilseung

as Admiral Adama would say "and so say we all"

Jerseygirl

It's pronounced URBS here.

Lorna at Vicenza

You lovely twit ........ even worse.

HERBS !

cindyabs

Do you say maaacho or mahcho?

dakota44

Definitely both a noun and a verb.
Critique>
noun
1. an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review.
2. a criticism or critical comment on some problem, subject, etc.
3. the art or practice of criticism.

–verb (used with object)
to review or analyze critically.

dakota44

Being of Italian heritage and growing up with Italians...I agree with you 100%. No one either first generation or from th eold country that I ever knew acted like those idiots.