Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Hitch-hiking

I suppose it's possible that some people reading this newsgroup are
not aware that the BBC started transmitting the third series of "The
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on Radio 4 last Tuesday. (NB when I
say "last Tuesday" I mean "the Tuesday contained in last week". If I wanted
to refer to yesterday I would say "this Tuesday". Similary, "this
Thursday" is, to me, tomorrow, and "next Thursday" is the Thursday
contained in next week. I'm not sure if this is typical English or
British usage, but I am aware that it's different from Italian usage.
I use "last February", "this February", "next November" etc.
similarly. Comments from other native English speakers most welcome:
perhaps I'm crazy.)
The episodes are downloadable from the BBC web site, somewhere. I
believe each is available for one week after the Thursday repeat of
each episode, so episode 1 should still be available for a day or so.
The first two series were transmitted in the late 70s and/or possibly
early 80s. Orthodox hitch-hikers such as myself regard only the
_radio_ versions of this work as divinely inspired.
I feel compelled to warn people that, so far, I'm not very impressed
with the third series.
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had
been dead for two years. (T. Lehrer)

Did you try the game?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
Very cute. Whoever programmed it did a very good job.
-- 
Mary

 perhaps I'm crazy.)
Instead I have to say your way resembles so much Italian...
If I want to talk about a day of the current week I generally say the name
of the day like the example below
"*Giovedě* esco con amici"
Telling the truth I could also say "*Questo* giovedě esco con amici" but I
avoid it.
when I refer to the previous week I say "Giovedě *scorso* sono uscito con
amici" or also "*L'altro* giovedě sono uscito con amici" but the
last one is colloquial and must necessarily be avoided in ceremonial talks.
instead when I talk about a day of the next week I say "Giovedě *prossimo*
uscirň con amici"

 uscirň con amici"
Non credo esista un modo condiviso da tutti, infatti quando si dice
"Giovedě prossimo faccio la tal cosa", immancabilmente segue un "Intendi
questo giovedě o... ?".
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with
education?". "She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of
respectability". "It is obviously the same person".
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

 questo giovedì o... ?".
ahhh se tutti seguissero le mie convenzioni.... lol :)

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Sia "prossimo" che "scorso" sono abbreviazioni, infatti la 
forma completa sarebbe:
prossimo venturo (p.v. in certa corrispondenza);
ultimo scorso (u.s.).
-- 
oggi no, domani sì

Very cute. Whoever programmed it did a very good job.
I believe they have added graphics for this presentation of it, but
they aren't necessary.
I can imagine text adventures being of some interest/use to some
people in this newsgroup.
Many modern games have been produced in the same file format as the
old Infocom games, which means they can be played with things like
Frotz. The canonical recent text adventure is the very strange
"Photopia" by Adam Cadre, available (free) from 
http://adamcadre.ac/
.
There are newsgroups, rec.games.int-fiction and rec.arts.int-fiction
about these games, and two modernish programming languages, Inform and
TADS, for producing them.
Another modern game which might appeal to some people is the very odd
"Spider and Web". There's a whole ftp site of and about text
adventures, but I can't remember the address. 
if-archive.org
? The
newsgroups will be full of references to it, anyway.
For the record, the hitchhikers text adventure is pretty unfair/hard
by Infocom standards.
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Adam Atkinson (
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 by Infocom standards.
It certainly seems hard (I'm stuck already), but I don't play a lot of
video games. 
It helps to have a good knowledge of the books.
-- 
Mary

 ultimo scorso (u.s.).
non lo sapevo :)

 with the third series.
Of this I'm sorry to hear.
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 The game is 20 years old. It was published by Infocom in 1984.
I can't believe it!I was wondering if those old adventures were available in
emulators or similar thing.
So ,excuse me for the OT, Do you think I can find games like: The Hobbit,or
The Golden Baton even The Pawn?
Do you remember The Pawn,nice static graphics and Jerry Lee Lewis playing
piano in Hell!!
Can you kindly share some links Adam?
thank you!
Raudo
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Joe from Massachusetts

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I got stuck in the Heart of Gold last night; the door keeps asking for
proof of my intelligence, and I can't think what to do...
-- 
Mary

proof of my intelligence, and I can't think what to do...
This is pretty silly, and frankly pretty unguessable. You need to be
carrying tea and no tea simultaneously.
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Adam Atkinson (
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Joe from Massachusetts

 carrying tea and no tea simultaneously.
I don't remember that being in the book :-)
I agree, it's irritating when the game hinges on something you could
never guess in a million years.
-- 
Mary

 questo giovedě o... ?".
Concordo. Perň gioca anche la vicinanza o meno del giorno in
questione. Oggi per esempio č venerdě primo ottobre. Se parlo di
"giovedě prossimo", mi pare evidente che intendo giovedě 7, che č un
giorno della prossima settimana e non di questa. Ovvero, "next
Thursday".
Se, invece, oggi fosse martedě 4 ottobre, potrei riferirmi a giovedě
7 sia con "giovedě prossimo" sia con "questo giovedě", ma nel primo
caso potrebbe restare il dubbio se per caso non intendo giovedě 14,
quello della settimana successiva, quindi č effettivamente sempre
meglio chiarire (in questo caso, specificherei "dopodomani").

 meglio chiarire (in questo caso, specificherei "dopodomani").
Ma se e` lunedi` e si parla di un giorno piu` distante, venerdi` o sabato
"prossimi", probabilmente non sentirei il bisogno della precisazione.

 the Friday of next week is "next Friday."
Ok, so American and British English seem to agree on that usage. 
By "next"  you just mean "next week's"!

_Enrico C_, venerdì 01/ott/2004:
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Speaking of months, would "next December" be December of next year?
Surely not in Italian, excluding it were said in December. 
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Maria Luisa C - 01/10/2004 21.50.20