The meanings of words

How many words for one idea?
I read an interesting story about a new book out in the UK right now. The book is thought as a sort of list of words (from a load of langauges) that have specific meanings; so specific that cannot be translated in other languages but through a long expression. Some examples? Questing is a Dutch word. The meaning? To let somebody’s lover to get in his bed but only for a talk…I mean this sounds very specific, and tough too…The most poetic I read was this Chinese word yuyin: the feeling of a sound that rests in our ears after the actual sound is gone”. It’s awesome…I do not have similar words in my beloved Italian language. There was the Italian one but it was nothing special actually: pomicione. Do you want to know the meaning? Get the book!
I’ll try to get it too!!! The title is “The meaning of Tingo”, by Adam Jacot de Boinod.
If you have any word specific enough to be able to compete with these, please post it with its full meaning. I’d like to make a sort of chart or list of the coolest ones!

Fog and Fog

The season of the foggy days has come...you can see sharply only for thirty meters - or something like that - then this thick white veil prevails...we are waiting for the floods now...so that we'll walk like blind people in our funny plastic boots...

Night view

Thanx to Barbara, the sweetest girl from Sardiny that Spain has ever known, I have this picture in my library . It's a picture from the end of August...and the house is just two minutes from home.

 

Venice : village of geezers

There are some myths about this city that are totally false and some ideas that are misleading...
They are pretty obvious for me but sometimes when I talked with people I realized reality is different.
The first one is about this city's size. To consider Venice a city is a matter of choice, maybe faith: with its 55 thousand inhabitants it'd be easier to put it among the big villages' category.
This feature is not that bad in itself but it's important to notice that less than a century ago the venetian population was more than the double...

And this is half of the true...the other half is the ageing of people living in here...the ageing of the European population is a common phenomenon for the whole continent but here it's getting tough...Last saturday, Ocotber the 22nd, the most famous local newspaper, IL GAZZETTINO, contained an article about this issue. It reported that in Cannaregio, the most populated Sestriere - district - of the city, almost 9 thousands out of the 13 thousands inhabitants living there are, at least, 45 years old...
And the trend is scaring...fortunately there are some students that live here....they represent some fresh air in this gloomy landscape and a resource....then there are the tourists but that's another story...

Palazzo Fortuny

Peaceful Venice

View from my balcony

I wonder how many days I will have to wait to see the sky as blue as in that September's afternoon...

Get started.

Here we go...this is just the beginning...