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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 5

April 4, 2007

Trash in Lecco: New Collection And More Expensive Tax Lecco like the USA: the 24 hour store is coming [To which I say: yay!] Left: Hangs himself under the railway bridge at only 24 years because he’s gay. [Yes, it happens here, too, sadly.] Colombo trial: Gilardi names Lecco’s leading citizens. Right: Loan-sharking: Half of [...]

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 4

April 3, 2007

Mar, 2007 – (handwritten) Sunday [we're] always open [formal complaint to the police] – Too lively: the janitor insults and threatens the children Writing and drawings defame the principal of Grassi high school Mar, 2007 – Exhibitionist terrorizes [female] cyclists – denounced [formal complaint made to police] Fines “Auxiliary [traffic police] [should be] more tolerant [...]

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 3

April 2, 2007

Reader Stefano Tonti sent me this photo. The headline says “Doctor beaten with a shovel”. ata is a suffix you can add to many nouns to create a word meaning “an application of [noun]“. Badile = shovel or spade, so someone applied a shovel to this poor doctor (unfortunately, we didn’t buy the newspaper so [...]

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Everyday Italian: Learn from Newspaper Headlines 2

January 3, 2007

At the wedding lunch, [he] betrays his wife with his [male] friend. Fell in acid, Lecchese dies after three months. Terrible accident: a woman run over and killed in the crosswalk. Alarm on the Grigna (a local mountain) – six hikers lost. left: It’s a long story, read it here. right: Marconi Cinema closes Old [...]

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Everyday Italian: Learn from Newspaper Headlines

January 2, 2007

The local newspapers in Italy’s smaller cities and towns advertise with eye-catching headline boards, designed to be as sensational as possible. Usually one board reports two headlines of the day or week, and sometimes the juxtaposition is unintentionally funny. Struck by a toilet seat thrown from the train – Priest collapses at mass! (Okay, I [...]

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