The traffic on the roads this week in Milan has been intense. Everybody seems to be jumping in their cars to head off to look for prezzies for all and sundry. The guy in a chemists commented that the true meaning of Christmas seemed to have been totally lost and that everybody just seemed to … [Read more...]
Gianpietro Carlesso – pure creativity
December 22, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Gianpietro Carlesso is an Italian sculptor from Bolzano, which is in the north east of Italy. I have just completed another translation for him about the item on the left.It is a work he is entering in a competition dedicated to sculptures in steel- the European Contest for Monumental Sculpture … [Read more...]
Another niggle
December 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Is email getting slower? It took 3 hours for a simple mail from my dad to get to me. My old man is in the UK. Will the day ever come when we go back to snail mail? Probably not. … [Read more...]
A little niggle
December 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
My mouse, OK it's a trackball really, sits on my right hand side, but all my program menus, and the tabs for this here Wordpress system, lie on the left hand side of the screen. I don't know if other people think the same, but I would prepare to have all the most regularly used menus on my right … [Read more...]
The transformation of words
December 17, 2006 By Leave a Comment
In Italian the verb 'fornire' means to supply, which is similar to the French 'fournir'. Both words seem to have their origins in Latin, seeing as one word in Latin which means the same is 'orno'.Then one could compare both the French and Italian to the English verb 'furnish', which in one of … [Read more...]
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