The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Learn Italian Lesson 4
In this lesson we learn how to talk about things around the house, review definite article and the verb to be, and get introduced to some descriptive adjectives that should be immediately useful.
Bidendämmerung: Twilight of the Biden: Meltdown at Debate vs. Trump: #swapJoeout
His performance confirmed this was a setup. His handlers set this earliest debate ever to display his decrepitude. The NY Times headlined online just a couple hours after the event, “Democrats Talk About Replacing Biden on the Ticket.”
Siena III: The Legacy
But beyond commercial rivalry and the Guelph/Ghibelline feud, there is the fact that all these little Tuscan cities–especially Siena–were ferociously competitive, both internally and with rival cities. They competed not just for commercial domination and military might, but also for beauty.
The Great Debate at the End of the Universe
Before going to bed, I made the mistake of checking the news and found clips of “the debate.” I exhausted my vocbbulary of Americanisms drawn from Captain Billy’s Whizz Bang. Gee Whillikers. Holey Moley.
Biden Abusing Overstretched U.S. Military for Foreign Policy Incompetence
One of the topics that ought to come up at the Thursday Biden-Trump debate, but won’t, is the fate of the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, CVN-69.
Wednesday’s Child: The Living City
A venerable old derelict who washed parked cars up and down the little street where I first lived in London had been born in a house next door to Winston Churchill’s. His only character flaw was drinking sixteen pints of bitter every evening, and as I never owned a car he felt he could talk to me with a frankness that rose above mercantile niceties.
Learn Italian, Lesson 3
This may be the last time I list all the vocabulary of the LL. If your set has not arrived, be sure to concentrate on the vocabulary and grammar I have presented in 1-3, because then you will only need to breeze through these lessons in LL.
The Stoic Revolution….
I keep my FB account for a few reasons. I do occasionally get news of distant friends. Sometimes I can also share something from the Fleming Foundation, in the hope–usually vain–that it will attract a new subscriber–who feels our work is worth the quarter or fifty cents a day we charge.
Learn Italian 2
Italian has two genders, masculine and feminine. While words pertaining to male (uomo, ragazzo, fratello, dottore) are usually masculine and words pertaining to female (donna, moglie, ragazza, dottoressa) are feminine, these are the only cases where grammatical gender has anything to do with sexuality.
