Racconto cambogiano
This year I was on a conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Not my first time. For my Italian friends I wrote some impressions up. So if you know Italian, please continue. If not, I...
lavorare lavorare lavorare …
A nice monument of Ugo Nespolo in San Benedetto del Tronto, next to the sea, says: Lavorare lavorare lavorare preferisco il rumore del mare! What is there more to say … (big thanks to...
From the south: piccerella
A nice word for your lovely nice, but also for a very nice girl. A word down from the south, full of the flavor of tasty vine, full of the flavor of sand, sea,...
impiantito – where I am currently hanging around
Another nice word from the Tuscany. Synonym for pavimento, the floor. Ask this to someone from outside the Tuscany and he will stare at you.
piagnucolone
A word for my Viennese friends, this is what we Viennese are: chi piagnucolare continuato, where “piagnucolare” means piangere a lungo, sommessamente e lamentosamente, I would translate it with “jeiern”.
codesto/costì
I recently found out that the Italian — or better the Tuscan — language has a distinction which has been lost in many other languages. I only know that this distinction is actively used...
My most beloved word: bagnasciuga
The word bagnasciuga describes the small stretch on the beach where the sea comes and goes, so the stretch getting wet and dry, that’s the origin (bagnare – getting wet, asciugare – drying up)....
