It’s surprising just how many English terms are thrown into everyday conversation here in Italy. As you might expect, many of these are more business or marketing related, a wide range of specific terms in the English language having gradually made their way into the Italian vernacular. But I thought it might be fun to […]
Pseudo-anglicisms in Italian Read More »
Italians love to make full use of their adjectives when describing the beauty and elegance of the many Made in Italy products and luxury goods of which they are so proud. I’m talking about words like prezioso, ricercato and pregiato. These are harnessed in myriad ways in Italian, and can sometimes be tricky to render
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Just last week, I enjoyed a very fruitful Bristol Translates Summer School organised by my alma mater, the University of Bristol. Three intense days of morning and afternoon sessions were spent closely analysing and picking apart a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, all under the expert guidance of literary translators Tim Parks and Howard
School’s out – at least for now Read More »
Considering the business I’m in, you can probably appreciate that I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to come up with the ‘best’ way to effectively transform the words and concepts of one language into another, or rather into my mother tongue, which is English. Although my main source language – Italian – is
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