Comments on: Boccadasse, Genova, Italy

By: allegata

allegata — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:05:05 +0000

[...] holiday season in full gear, there are lots of packages I'm sending and lots that I am receiving.A photo of Boccadasse, Genoa, Italy by Di Mackey | Blog from …Welcome to the start of a new Saturday feature on Blog from Italy – Images of Italy. I know the [...]

By: Genova alberghi

Genova alberghi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:40:58 +0000

Genova alberghi…

.. cose da fare e da vedere saranno contenute nella guida allegata al numero di Blue di ottobre, edito da Sagep e dedicato in gran parte al Salone, in distribuzione negli alberghi e in molti esercizi pubblici di Genova. ……

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:57:05 +0000

It does, but what, no mention of footing (= jogging)? That has to be my favourite Italglish word. My partner used to teach English in Milan and it’s fair to say she knows where you’re coming from.

For a defence of English spelling I’d refer you to Pinker’s excellent’s The Language Instinct, which is a cracking read regardless.

(Oh, and “goomah” comes from comare and means mistress, if Chris V. is still lurking.)

Since we’re trading blog posts, here’s one on panettone

http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2008/12/recipes-3-panettone.html

And one on ‘our’ fair city

http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2008/10/objects-to-remember-with.html

By: Alex Roe

Alex Roe — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:43:15 +0000

Roll away! I did know about the Genoa and Milan football teams being founded by my fathers, so to speak. And the pronunciation of Milan as ‘Meelan’ has always seemed odd to me as well, especially seeing as ‘minuto’ is pronounced, correctly, using the ‘i’ as in ‘mid’.

You might find this old post of mine interesting:
http://italychronicles.com/italglish-or-italglese-or-engliano-or-ingliano/

All the best,

Alex

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:22:12 +0000

So long as we’re on a roll… both football teams, Genoa and Milan, are of course so named because they were founded by English expats (and Genoa was also a cricket club), but curiously Milan the team is pronounced with the emphasis on the i, unlike both the English and the Milanese names for the city, where the emphasis is on the a (the Wikipedia page for AC Milan is dead wrong on this point). I could never work that one out.