Is it so hard to remember? :)
Even though I already know that, according to Wikipedia, Carlos and Carla rank as the 3rd most popular names in many Spanish-speaking countries, I still don’t understand why many people outside Italy call me Carlos. I’m Italian and Carlo is my name: please, use it to refer to me. :) Carlo (and Karl, Carl, Charles [...]
Sometimes I have to be pitiless :)
I’ve just found this masterpiece in my spam box. My name is Elena. To me of 20 years. I would like to get acquainted with you if you not against. I Look forward to hear you soon with impatience. Adult Dating (link omitted) Wouldn’t it be cynical to reply with something like this? Dear Elena, [...]
An Artist of the Floating World
In the last few months, I have been looking for a novel written by a contemporary English writer whose prose would be both easy and refined: then some days ago a British friend suggested reading “An Artist of the Floating World” written by Kazuo Ishiguro. He was born in Japan in 1954 and he left [...]
Vocabulary for Dummies
This informal grammar book was not written for Non-native English Speakers: the usual readers are Americans who want to enhance both their spoken and written English and their vocabulary with everyday words and specialist terminology. I had never noticed that a large number of English words have Latin roots: this is probably due to the [...]
“Cani e porci” in English :)
Talking to some friends, today I wondered what English expression is close to the Italian “cani e porci” (yes, we were talking about a recent post). Later, I recalled two good candidates: “everybody and his dog” or “everybody and his kid sister” and so on (if you want to make fun of someone); “every mother’s [...]
Winston Churchill
I can’t provide a reference but I heard that Sir Winston Churchill, talking about Italians, once said: They fight wars as if they were playing and they play as if they were fighting. Undeniably true, Sir: you all won two World Wars and just one World Cup :).
Constrained writing
I’m not English but I wrote this simple Constrained writing sentence that uses two words with the same pronunciation and a third that sounds close to the first couple: All of us have a hole in our own whole life. Don’t hesitate to write to me your Constrained writing examples.
