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Did You Know?
In Italian, the word for ‘cat’ is ‘gatto’, whereas in Latin, or rather, ancient Italian, the word for ‘cat’ was ‘cattus’. This means that the English language word for ‘cat’ is closer to Latin than the modern Italian word ‘gatto’.
Curious what you come across whilst researching the differences between civil and common law legal principles, isn’t it?
Burnt Midnight Oil
A little while back I was asked to prepare a short two day workshop on how to write a press release in English for the Media Relations master at the business school where I often find myself.
After burning copious amounts of that old midnight oil, I came up with such a course.
The first time this course was held was quite a nerve racking experience and I remember feeling much like an actor appearing on his first night. I really had no idea as to how my course would go down. Even though I was fairly sure that I had covered almost everything, and come up with a method that was thorough but, at the same time, quite straight forward. I had even come up with a way, I hoped, of getting the most out of a large group of people with widely differing levels of knowledge of English.
At the end of the day though, I had never really done anything as extensive as this. So how did the course go? Read more
Legislative Decree no. 25000001 of 7 March 2008 - a New Italian law
Section 1. Henceforth spoken and written use of reference to and inference to the word ‘old’ and the use of all synonyms of such word related concepts appearing in the Italian language and equivalent words which exist in any and all dialects employed by Italians are hereby declared illegal.
Section 2. Pursuant to the requirements of Section 1 herein of this Legislative Decree Rome shall be known forthwith as Italy’s new capital and Pompei shall be granted the status of ‘New Town’.
Section 3. In accordance with Section 1 hereto any and all words appearing in any and all Italian dictionaries and/or dictionaries concerning Italian dialects which make reference to the word ‘old’ synonyms of aforesaid word and dialectical equivalents of such word are to be removed.
Section 4. Use of word ‘old’ and the use of all synonyms of such word that appear in the Italian language and equivalent words which exist in any and all dialects employed by Italians shall be punishable by appearances on the newest version of ‘Big Brother’. Appearance is obligatory and mandatory. Any and all of those who refuse to appear on ‘Big Brother’ will be sentenced to prepare new election posters for all of Italy’s new politicians.
Section 5. With reference to Section 3 hereto above as aforementioned any and all of those found in possession of dictionaries and/or other reference sources electronic gas-powered or otherwise containing reference to the word ‘old’ synonyms of aforesaid word related concepts and dialectical equivalents of such word shall be burnt at the stake until nicely roasted and served with chips fries or there common equivalents.
Recently edited to remove any and all commas.
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