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Beautiful, bilingual, macaronic mash-up
What I overheard last weekend coming from my daughters’ bedroom: It’s the kind of thing the older one says, with facility, howling with laughter. An alliterative, language-loving mixture of her two mother tongues. Something I could never hope to concoct, … Continue reading
Posted in ITALY, THEY SAY
Tagged alliteration, bilingual, childhood, fairytales, growing up, macaronic verse
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Of creeping, clinging and climbing things
My parents were both professors at a university whose oldest buildings were clad in thick ivy. I loved entering these buildings with their gothic-arched windows and their swags of green leaves, as much a part of them as brick and … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, FRANCE
Tagged academia, fairytales, gardens, ivy, vigne vierge, vignes, vines
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