by DHales | Jan 21, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
La parolaccia Bad Language It has become the oscenità (obscenity) heard round the world. After the shipwreck of a cruise liner (nave da crociera) off the Tuscan coast, an officer of the Italian Coast Guard, angered by the captain’s abbandono (abandoning) of his...
by DHales | Jan 17, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
il naufragio shipwreck, total ruin The sight of a huge cruise ship (nave da crociera) lying on its side (su un fianco) in the water, as if sleeping (come addormentata), was startling enough. But I immediately recognized the island (l’isola) in the background:...
