Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy's top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and … [Read more...]
Legislative Decree no. 25000001 of 7 March 2008 – a New Italian law
March 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Section 1. Henceforth spoken and written use of reference to and inference to the word 'old' and the use of all synonyms of such word related concepts appearing in the Italian language and equivalent words which exist in any and all dialects employed by Italians are hereby declared … [Read more...]
The Unkindest cut – follow up
March 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Our dog went in for his operation yesterday, and he seems to be doing OK. He is a bit down in the dumps and not his usual lively self, but I imagine he will get over it.Once he perks up, I'll take and post the odd photo of the little chap, as per Gege's request. … [Read more...]
I Segreti di Londra – Corrado Augias
March 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to Man of Roma, who quoted a section from Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter Corrado Augias' book describing the English, I bought a copy of Augias' book 'I Segreti di Londra' yesterday.While I've yet to really dig in to this book; I've made it to page 26 so far; what I've read … [Read more...]
Pots Calling Kettles Black
March 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
As you may imagine, Italy is suffering from a minor bout of election fever at the moment. The general elections are just around the corner and election posters are appearing right, left, and centre.I've seen a couple of amusing ones, so far. First there was this lovely one from the Berlusco-Fini … [Read more...]
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