To Treat [tri:t] September 15, 2006

3 meanings:

1. main meaning : to treat someone/something, to treat a subject , to treat a substance with= trattare
2.to treat somebody for something ( a disease) = trattare,curare

3. to treat somebody to ( a drink), to treat myself to = offrire

Treat (noun) is from the last meaning= festa gioia ecc.

Treatment (noun ) is from the second meaning= trattamento, cura

The Italian word “trattare” don’t have the second meaning of to treat. Using to treat with this second meaning is hard for me, but I count on training.

I’ll treat you to a drink if you treat my wound… erm such a kind of doctor! Luckily this is only a trick to memorise

Brick Lane ( by M. Ali) September 12, 2006

This is my second reading in English. I have to admit that I skipped a lot, but not enough to not understand the story. It is about the Nazneen ‘s life within an arranged wedding in a foreign country.
I found the letters from Nazneen’s sister, Hasina, very hard to understand.

I liked this novel but… but it’s too much feminine, it’s missing a masculine side. Males remain off scene. It is the women’s life that this novel is telling. In my experience women’s life is entangled with men’s life deeply, so there is something leaved out.

I finished Pride and Prejudice yesterday, but in Italian ( I’m not interested in old English, It could make me more confusing) and I find the same need to get a good marriage… it could be that we have an “ethnic woman” on a side, and an old one on the other, but another kind of woman, with an own job and house could want a good marriage as well. it’s depend on the meaning of that “good” (eg someone who doesn’t let her alone)

I need to read this novel, Brick lane, again ( not immediately ), to follow English now that I knew the story.