Tag Archives: Italian

The day before yesterday

Posted 10 days ago by John Gray

Nuestro mañana será más luminoso [sic] que nuestro ayer y nuestro hoy. Pero ¿quién pondría la mano en el fuego en cuanto a que nuestro pasado mañana no vaya a ser peor que nuestro anteayer? [Our tomorrow will be more …

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The Troubadours 2: a poem in 5 languages

Posted 227 days ago by John Gray

Here is a poem, or rather a song, which is written in five languages, with one verse each: Provençal, Italian, French, Gascon and Galician. The sixth verse is written in all these languages, in the same order, with two lines …

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What is a dialect?

Posted 233 days ago by John Gray

Following our recent posts on Neapolitan and different varieties of Arabic, it seemed like a good time to look at some of the uses of the term ‘dialect’, and to try to untangle what it is that linguists mean when …

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Lifting, footing, looping

Posted 280 days ago by John Gray

In Budapest, all of the 24 hour shops advertise themselves as ‘Non-stop’. A Hungarian friend of mine said, in English, something like ‘don’t worry, I’m sure there’ll be a non-stop we can go to’. Apparently in Hungarian these shops are …

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