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Study keeps well.
Job keeps well.
This evening I'm going to a theatrical show. I must write an article about it - interview the cast, smile and ask. Feeling your life's rich, feeling you're glancing here and there - feeling you're grabbing at several opportunities.

I bought a new notebook. (Moleskine addicted)
I wrote:

A.D. 1630on the cover, and

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[_earthshine_]

(English b.s. first:)

"to keep well" isn't used much, except to mean that food is resistant to spoiling. "This cheese keeps well in the refrigerator..." :)

Like in Italian, a common use is "to go well". "Study goes well" or "Study is going well".

If you want to imply that it "keeps going" well, meaning that it continues to go well, then you can say that. "Study keeps going well" (a little odd, but clear and correct), or "study continues to go well" (more common).

Otherwise great! You even correctly said, "...I can write something in which I believe." Most English speakers don't even get this right. People commonly (wrongly) say "...I can write something which i believe in." :/

The book is beautiful! There's something so nice about the act of writing on paper, and the aesthetics of it are very important. My poor paper journals get even less attention since i've been on LJ than they used to, but i do still cherish them and write in them from time to time.

Awhile back i ordered a bunch of these as gifts... but kept a sample extra for myself. ;)

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["to keep well" isn't used much, except to mean that food is resistant to spoiling. "This cheese keeps well in the refrigerator..." :)]
HEM.
Ops.
Thanks. :P

[Otherwise great! You even correctly said, "...I can write something in which I believe." Most English speakers don't even get this right. People commonly (wrongly) say "...I can write something which i believe in." :/]
I learned the form "in which": I'll use it until I'll die. :P

[The book is beautiful! There's something so nice about the act of writing on paper, and the aesthetics of it are very important. My poor paper journals get even less attention since i've been on LJ than they used to, but i do still cherish them and write in them from time to time.]
It's not an aesthetic issue.
Four years ago I sloshed Coca Cola on my Moleskine. Moleskine's leaves are thin like silk.
My Moleskine remained the same, not even a page went ruin.
God blesses Moleskine.

[Awhile back i ordered a bunch of these as gifts... but kept a sample extra for myself. ;)]
You love Italy, don't you? :P

[_earthshine_]

I learned the form "in which": I'll use it until I'll die. :P

:) I'm embarrassed to admit this, but i had this lesson hammered into me by a really dumb movie. In the movie, they made a joke where one character ordered another to "never end a sentence with a preposition!" Frankly, i've found it a good ground rule. If i find i'm about to end a sentence with a preposition, i stop myself, because chances are there's a form like "[preposition] which", or "[preposition] whom" that is more correct. (Exceptions include the more idiomatic forms like "to go out", "to come in", "to go by", "to fill in", etc.)

It's not an aesthetic issue.
Four years ago I sloshed Coca Cola on my Moleskine. Moleskine's leaves are thin like silk.
My Moleskine remained the same, not even a page went ruin.

Wow... that's impressive. I should try to find one to look at over here sometime.

(English note: "ruin" can be a noun or a verb, but not an adjective unless its "-ed" is attached -- either "went to ruin" or "was ruined".)

You love Italy, don't you? :P

As much as i can for a place i've never seen, i suppose. :) I worry that so much of it is silly ignorant fantasy, but sometimes i feel as if when i do finally see it, a small deep part of me will feel like i've come home. I hope that, someday, i'll get to find out.

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[(English note: "ruin" can be a noun or a verb, but not an adjective unless its "-ed" is attached -- either "went to ruin" or "was ruined".)]
I remembered a video game or rather a RPG in which I had read the word "ruined", and I thought it could be an adjective.

[ I worry that so much of it is silly ignorant fantasy, but sometimes i feel as if when i do finally see it, a small deep part of me will feel like i've come home. I hope that, someday, i'll get to find out.]
I don't know if you're right or maybe wrong, but I think you must visit Italy.

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I remembered a video game or rather a RPG in which I had read the word "ruined", and I thought it could be an adjective.

Yes, that's right. "was ruined" is okay, just not "was ruin" or "went ruin". The verb for "to go to ruin" is also okay, which i thought might have been what you wished to say.

I don't know if you're right or maybe wrong, but I think you must visit Italy.

Definitely. I have a dream of living over there for a year, but it'll be a few years before i'll be in a position to be able to do that. It will take some time, but someday i do really home to be there!

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Where do you want to live, in Italy? :)

[_earthshine_]

Wow... i have absolutely no idea yet. :) I think i definitely want:

1) someplace warm,

2) someplace from where i can pretty easily explore the rest of the country (especially places where my ancestors lived and/or distant cousins live now), even if only on weekends and holidays,

3) someplace where my family from the US can visit, if they wish, fairly easily,

4) someplace where i can be really immersed in the language but still function as a novice speaker,

5) someplace i can get an adequate job.

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Rome. *nods*

Never been here.
If God wants, I'll be there before the next summer.

[_earthshine_]

Hrm... really? Rome seemed like an obvious choice, but then i worried about #4... it seems like the "main" place that tourists go in Italy. If i lived there, would i really get the experience of living in Italy? ...or would that experience be "diluted" because of the comsopolitan/worldly city atmosphere?

I guess to draw an analogy, it's like saying that one wants to "experience living in America" by moving to New York. New York definitely has lots of American culture in it, but it's almost more of a "world city" than it is a truly "American city". I think it would be hard to truly "experience American life" by living only in New York. I don't know if this is making sense...

(Then again, many of the places i think of when i think of "how to experience life in America" are places in which i wouldn't want to live... :/ )

Pardon my ignorance if i'm wrong about Rome -- i have very little knowledge, and i welcome education. :)

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[Hrm... really? Rome seemed like an obvious choice, but then i worried about #4... it seems like the "main" place that tourists go in Italy. If i lived there, would i really get the experience of living in Italy? ...or would that experience be "diluted" because of the comsopolitan/worldly city atmosphere?]
The "RealItalianLife" doesn't exist.
If you go to Venice, you'll find a small city that stinks like a sewer, but beautiful, where the natives have gondole, not cars.
If you go to Sardegna, you'll find sheeps and sheperds (it's a cliché, ok? :P)
If you go to Bologna, you'll find the "city of students". Historical downtown and parties with ska/rock/trance/etcetc music.
In Sicily you must be warning, families have their own law (it's another cliché, quite true).
Etc etc...
Rome permit you to live several facets of the Italian culture. If you want, you can take your car and go out and visit the small cities around the capital city - but every cities, in Italy, have their own history and culture. We're full of agritourism. Read it: agri-tourism, made for tourists.
Do you want to know the Italian Culture? Make a lot of friends in Italy, and visit their cities and countries. It's the best choice. :)

Above all, Rome is a historical city: there you can find the "Italian Historical Art". And the Pope :D Here you'll find an Italian Parody of the Pope. You won't understand nothing, the actor speaks with a heavy Deutsch pronounce, but it's amusing. :D (We loooooooove the Pope.)

[_earthshine_]

That makes sense... I suppose it's silly to believe that there is one place in America wherein one could live "the American life", but there's definitely this sort of (questionable) idea that the "mid-West small-town lifestyle" sort of defines America -- y'know, apple pie and Main Street parades and all that crap. :)

I believe you... the best would be to find a nice place to live and work, but also visit as much of the country as possible. I assume that from Rome, there are many ways to get to rest of the country? I'd very much like to see as much as i can, and maybe spend some real time in the provinces and villages from which my ancestors came.

And is Rome a good place to be immersed in "proper" Italian? ...or does it have its own dialetto that's very common?

Make a lot of friends in Italy, and visit their cities and countries. It's the best choice. :)

Does this mean i should call you and Amu if we're coming? :) :) :)

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[I assume that from Rome, there are many ways to get to rest of the country?]
It's in the middle of Italy. ;)

[And is Rome a good place to be immersed in "proper" Italian? ...or does it have its own dialetto that's very common?]
Every places in Italy have their dialects. You mustn't find a city in which people don't speak the dialetto, but single people who doesn't speak the dialetto of their city.
("who doesn't" or "who don't"? After the "who", I knew, I must use "doesn't", but "people" is plural.)

[Does this mean i should call you and Amu if we're coming? :) :) :)]
Obviously you can call me.
(And I take you to Venice.)
But "Amu" is like "dear"; PurpleVertige calls the whole people she loves "Amu", as if a call the whole people I love "my beloved".

[_earthshine_]

Every places in Italy have their dialects. You mustn't find a city in which people don't speak the dialetto, but single people who doesn't speak the dialetto of their city.
("who doesn't" or "who don't"? After the "who", I knew, I must use "doesn't", but "people" is plural.)

(English b.s.)

"Every place" is singular, very similar to "each place". "Every place in Italy has its dialect(s)."

You're right about "people" -- it's plural in English (usually*), so it's "people who don't".

To make sure i understand you, is this what you mean?:

"You mustn't find a city in which people don't speak the dialetto, but [rather] [you must find] single people who don't speak the dialetto of their city [and instead speak standard Italian]."

*("People" occasionally carries a singular article when it's meant in the form of "nation/race/etc.": "The Mayans were a great people." However, even in this case, it seems to have become acceptable to conjugate verbs as if it were singular or plural: "This ancient people still populates the remote mountains..." or "This ancient people still populate the remote mountains..."; "The Mayan nation was a great people" or "The Mayan nation were a great people." This is a rare form, however. The singular people is usually used as an object ("The Mayans were a great people"), or in a pluralized form, which is even sillier: "The peoples of Asia have a richly diverse culture". ("Peoples"!... so silly!) It's all very silly, really.) :) :) :)

But "Amu" is like "dear"; PurpleVertige calls the whole people she loves "Amu", as if a call the whole people I love "my beloved".

Ooops... there i was, trying to be "cool" again. :)

OK, so "Amu" is a general nickname, like "Dear"... but "Sna"/"Snatch" is specifically for you, not just good friends in general?

I want to make sure I don't mess this up... :)

Obviously you can call me.

...and thank you! :D

...although at this rate, it make take years to get there... :(

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["Every place" is singular, very similar to "each place". "Every place in Italy has its dialect(s)."]
Ops. *rolleyes*
Stupid, stupid mistakes!

["You mustn't find a city in which people don't speak the dialetto, but [rather] [you must find] single people who don't speak the dialetto of their city [and instead speak standard Italian]."]
Yes, it's what I understood.
(And thanks for the clarification about "people"]

[OK, so "Amu" is a general nickname, like "Dear"... but "Sna"/"Snatch" is specifically for you, not just good friends in general?]
"Amu" is a strange way to shorten the word "amore", that's like "dear". :)
"Sna" is only for mine.

[...although at this rate, it make take years to get there... :(]
Sooner or later...
And sooner or later I'll visit the Montana. *nods*

[_earthshine_]

And thanks for the clarification about "people"

You're very welcome. (English is a silly silly language...)

And sooner or later I'll visit the Montana.

*laugh* If you like. Montana is definitely pretty, particularly in places, but if you come to America there's so many other places to see... Our culture is, well, frightening, but what's left of our natural lands is very very beautiful in some places. I haven't been outside of the US much, but i have travelled a lot within it. There's a lot to see!

You let me know if you're coming. :)

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[You're very welcome. (English is a silly silly language...)]
:D

Never been in U.S.A.
I know that America is a giant: you can drive for miles and miles without seeing nothing except for the landscape. No people no houses.