Il profondo mistero di chio che sta dicendo mi infuoca il cuore

[qatarperegrine]

According to my Italian phrasebook, that means "The profound mystery of what you just said sets my soul on fire." (I think it should be "heart" not "soul," but what do I know? All my Italian comes from Mozart operas.)

At any rate, we're leaving for in Italy tonight. Hurrah! Talk to you all in a week!

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ooh how wonderful! have a great time!

have great fun (we expect a detailed report afterwards )

[andreas_schaefer]

literally it is heart , but literally it would be 'enfires' ( if there was such a word) and 'have been saying' - but both the use of the 'times' and auxiliaries are different in different languages. Anyway heart and soul are reasonably close. I will always associate a burning heart with Luke 24.32 the disciples that walked to Emmaus. And that might be a reason to use soul if I wanted to avoid that association.

Re: have great fun (we expect a detailed report afterwards )

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"literally it would be 'enfires' ( if there was such a word)"

"Inflames," I suppose -- although that has rather different connotations in English!

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