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The Italy You Don't Know

The Vatican is Anti-Berlusconi!

March 12, 2008 by Alex Roe

Yep, it's official, well almost. There have been quite a number of news stories about the new 21st century sins that the dear old Vatican has come up with. And here they are, the sins, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funny Tagged With: Berlusconi, church, elections, fun, Italia, Italian, men, news, pollution, pope, vatican

Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?

March 9, 2008 by Alex Roe

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology and Gadgets Tagged With: Google, internet, Italia, Italian, problem, problems

Pots Calling Kettles Black

March 5, 2008 by Alex Roe

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, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italian politics Tagged With: blog, elections, fun, Grillo, Italia, Italian, Italian politicians, men, Milan, photo, Politics, Prodi, Veltroni

The Exceptions to the Rule

March 3, 2008 by Alex Roe

Where I find myself teaching English there are Italians from all over Italy, so it may come as no real surprise to hear that a few Sardinians make it over to Milan to take masters. As a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italians Tagged With: Culture, Italia, Italian

A Curious Inconsistency

March 2, 2008 by Alex Roe

Don't ask me why my odd little mind ended up considering this, but the fact remains that in Italian the word 'giorno' - day, is a 'male' word, whereas the word for week - 'settimana' is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Language Tagged With: English, Italia, Italian, Language, odd

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