You wash it in the morning, put a smile on it throughout the day, and display it along with your friends’ on Facebook. In my first minutes in the country, I repeated it.īy DHales | | Games, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogsfaccia, viso, voltoface A face is a face in English. If you happen to be royalty or a pontiff, you might even be.īy DHales | | Books, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogsdomani mattinatomorrow morning When I arrived in Italy for the first time in 1983 I knew only one Italian sentence: “Mi dispiace, ma non parlo italiano” (“I’m sorry, but I don’t speak Italian”). In Italian you might be tu (informal), Lei (formal) or voi (plural).
Derived from the.īy DHales | | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogstu, Lei, voi you (informal), you (formal), you (plural) You are always “you” in English, regardless of age, gender, rank, or number.
This utterly Italian insult traces its history back to.īy DHales | | Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogsalbergo hotel As we were tooling around Lago Maggiore many years ago, my husband asked me, “Who is this guy Albergo and why is his name on so many buildings?” I gently explained that “albergo” means hotel. By DHales | | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogscafone peasant, bumpkin, hick Every country has its share of jerks, clods and ignorant slobs, but Italian reserves the word “cafone” (pronounced cah-fon-ay) for its home-grown variety.
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