Italian phrase of the day: Buon San Valentino!
Buon San Valentino!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Literally: 'Good Saint Valentine!'
People with a delicate stomach or sensitive to blood sugar imbalance, please turn away now.
Dr B. has been so good and generous to me lately, and I wanted to show him so much, how much I love him (so much), that I woke him up at 7 with this dozen of red roses and breakfast tray. Baking fresh bread meant I had to get up at 5 - but I am usually up that early anyway:
More details on the annotated picture at Flickr.
The month of February is quite unfair to poor Dr B.: our anniversary is on the 2nd, as well as his dad's 70th birthday on the same day, then my birthday on the 11th, and today this. Honestly, I feel a little bit of Hallmark fatigue myself.
I thought I'd get him a present (we usually don't), and I found him a breakfast set like the one in the picture above, from eBay (I also gave him the same one again last year, it's a bit of a running joke because he only wants to drink his tea from that one cup), but it arrived chipped and broken because it was badly packaged.
I therefore opted for a wireless keyboard and laser mouse instead (less cables = less clutter = a happier me), but the ergonomic keyboard will only prove to be successful once he has tried it tonight.
Il pane fatto in casa è più buono
Home-baked bread is better
Literally: 'The bread made in house/home is more good'.
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Good is translated with 'buono', but when it is part of a greeting or wish it is shortened to 'buon'. I suppose it slips off the tongue better: 'buongiorno' (good morning), 'buon compleanno' (happy birthday), 'buon viaggio' (have a good trip).
I think I have mentioned it already, there are no (OK, extremely rare) irregular forms of 'more + word' like in English (better, stronger, etc.): you always say 'più' and then the word. So 'better' is simply 'più buono'.
Thursday 14 February 2008 at 11:25 pm
:-) Its was truely wonderful. Love S.