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… Continue reading Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 4
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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 3
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… Continue reading Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 3
Everyday Italian: Learn from Newspaper Headlines 2
^ above: 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… Continue reading Everyday Italian: Learn from Newspaper Headlines 2
Everyday Italian: Learn from Newspaper Headlines
^ Chiavenna, Dec 2006 Madesimo: costs of tele-heating* inflame the town Talamona: criminal blaze destroys the kids’ nativity scene. At the newstand: the book K2 Chiavenna: offerings stolen from the nativity scene Two tourists injured on the ski slopes in Madesimo *Teleriscaldamento, available in some Italian towns, recovers heat from power stations and pipes it… Continue reading Everyday Italian: Learn from Newspaper Headlines