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You've misunderstood.  I meant the title, not the job description  I didn't know there was anyone in Italy called the President.  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 12:50:34 PM EST
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In fact there are two people, one of them being Berlusconi.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 01:12:06 PM EST
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I thought he was PM.  

Migeru, sometimes the more you talk, the more you confuse me.  You can interpret that as a sign of my intellectual short-comings, but I thought you should know.  In case you're under the impression that you're enlightening me.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 01:16:06 PM EST
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In English he's PM. In Italian he's Presidente del Consiglio which means "chairman of the council [of ministers]".

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 01:18:59 PM EST
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It's the same in German, as well as Hungarian, BTW, with the further complication that in Hungarian, President doesn't have a Latin root:

  • figurehead President: köztársasági elnök (lit. 'Republican President')
  • PM: miniszterelnök (lit. Minister President).


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 01:49:08 PM EST
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