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lasciare = to leave (someone or something)
I can never bring myself to write the word poseur because its reassuringly proletarian meaning is totally undermined by its pretentious French spelling. It'd be like calling someone a fuckeure, or a skanque.
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leggere = to read
Best books of 2009!
- Geography and Plays ~ Gertrude Stein
- "He's All Man" ~ John M. Clum
- The Defense ~ Vladimir Nabokov
- Written on the Body ~ Jeanette Winterson
- Lighthousekeeping ~ Jeanette Winterson
- Outrageous Chess Problems ~ Burt Hochberg
- Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life ~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Waiting ~ Debra Ginsberg
- True Enough ~ Stephen ( Read more... )
- Geography and Plays ~ Gertrude Stein
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vendersi = to sell out
Linguistic quirks I am totally adopting ( Read more... ) -
Buon Natale = Merry Christmas
My new favorite joke is, whenever someone mentions wrapping, to make suggestive arm motions and pretend they said rapping.
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procrastinare = to procrastinate
And now, things I have accomplished in the hours since the power came back on this morning, besides photographing icefalls:
The Majesty of Colors is a five-minute Flash game that definitely falls into the "weird and beautiful" category. Think Cthulhu with balloons.
Auditorium, on the other hand is this horribly addictive little game that involves ( Read more... ) -
Inveire = to rant
Pet peeves for today!
1. Overly long movies that start out as romances and then, once the love object is secured, transform lurchingly into Nazi war movies within thirty seconds of the end of the wedding scene. Offenders I have seen recently: The Sound of Music, La vita è bella, Australia2. Classes on X that start out by asking "What is X?" as if ( Read more... ) -
tacere = to be silent
Awkward silences I have endured lately ( Read more... ) -
reclamizzare = to advertise
Since my last post was . . . holy crap, over half a year ago, I guess it'd be interesting to restart in sort of the same vein I left off in.
I just think it's interesting to compare this Obama ad to the Berlusconi one I posted before. I mean, I was honestly moved by this video; I almost started welling up when the woman appeared at 2:04. But ( Read more... ) -
Soapbox
And you thought American ads were getting bad. I just wanted to share this: this is a recent ad for Silvio Berlusconi, head of the right-wing Forza Italia party.
It's pretty hilarious. There is a backup children's chorus. The imagery is blatantly emotive to the point of farce. The solo singers purport to be representative of their nation though ( Read more... )
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