Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: altro chiarimento

�Bedding, such as bed sheets, pillowcases, and a fleece blanket 
[students should not anticipate the availability of blankets and duvets 
on their first, but may be purchased during the afternoon orientation 
trips to Wal-Mart];�
"anticipate the availability... on their first"?
Ma si dice?
Immagino che voglia dire che se non mi sono gi� portato le coperte da 
casa, le compro il primo giorno da Wal-Mart e sono a posto, no?
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
-- 
La parola tradisce l'ossessione (Baudelaire)

 casa, le compro il primo giorno da Wal-Mart e sono a posto, no?
Boh! In ogni caso, porta un maglione!

 Boh! In ogni caso, porta un maglione!
Anche un po' di coperte, va l�. Mi sa che ci vorranno due valige...
:-)
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Yes. They should have said "first day".
You can probably find what you want to buy before you get there.
Wal-Mart is unreliable as far as being fully stocked, so you may not find
what you want there for the price you want to pay.
My daughter registered at "Bed Bath and Beyond" for her wedding, and the
prices there were the same as at Wal-Mart, and she would rather shop there
than at Wal-Mart. Sears/Kmart and J.C. Penney are also alternatives.
It seems that everything at Wal-Mart is from China.
At any of these stores' web sites, you can search for the item you want
(sheets, pillows, pillowcases, blankets, comforters, duvets, etc.). Probably
all of these items are also listed under "clearance", which means you will
save a bit of money there. I don't think you need anything too fancy, so
there is no point to buying the first thing you come across. At least you
can get an idea of the range of prices for these items. You want to make
sure the item you are looking at is available "in store", and not just in
the online catalog.
Bed Bath and Beyond, 63 East Marketview Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/bedbathandbeyond/storelocbts.aspx?order_num=-1&bts=1
J.C. Penney, Market Place Mall, 2000 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/X2.aspx?DeptID=59474&CatID=59474&cmCatLevel=2&cmResetCat=True&CmCatId=&cmAMS_T=G1&cmAMS_C=D8
Sears, Market Place Mall, 2000 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
http://www.sears.com/
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #1734, 2610 No Prospect Ave, Champaign, IL 61821
http://www.walmart.com/
A note on shopping in the US.
All the major stores have flyers in the Sunday newspaper : Sears/Kmart, J.C.
Penney, Wal-Mart (general department stores); Bed Bath and Beyond (household
goods); Best Buy (electronics); Staples (stationery and electronics), etc.
The sales usually start on Sunday, and end the following Saturday. The best
deals will be had if you visit a store just after opening on Sunday, before
stocks are depleted. Sales flyers are also posted online, either on Saturday
or early Sunday morning.
Lest you get too comfortable about your trip, here is an interesting link.
�After I woke up to find bed bugs in the bed biting me, I immediately
checked out in the middle of the night.�
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g36806-d90348-Reviews-Sleep_Inn-Urbana_Illinois.html
Joe from Massachusetts

 availability of blankets".
The sentence structure is verbose and convoluted albeit grammatically 
correct. People don't normally speak that way unless they work in public 
relations and they're paid to obfuscate meaning and mystify the public 
while seeming to be informative. It becomes a habit. The important thing 
is that they know what they mean and if you only had all the information 
they had you would know too.

 
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g36806-d90348-Reviews-Sleep_Inn-Urbana_Illinois.html
Yikes! No no, my plan is to arrive in Champaign at around 2am and go 
straight to my residence hall.
:-)
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 pomeriggio � gi� tutto chiuso ovunque, supermercati a parte?
A parte le grandi citt� come New York, Chicago etc. supermercati (nel 
senso di centri commerciali) a parte non resta quasi niente... Comunque 
mi sembra strano, per quanto ricordi io (pi� o meno sei mesi nel 
Michigan e sei nel New Jersey) i negozi sono aperti molto pi� a lungo 
che da noi. Anzi mi ricordo che ci sono supermercati aperti 24 ore, e 
almeno una volta ci siamo andati alle tre di notte per vedere se c'erano 
veramente clienti. C'erano!!
All'interno dei mall ci sono negozi "piccoli", ma chiudono quando chiude 
il mall e a memoria direi fra le 7 e le 9 di sera (pi� frequente le 9).
Io uscivo dall'ufficio verso le sei del pomeriggio e non ricordo di aver 
mai avuto prolemi con i negozi. Ovviamente nessuno fa l'intervallo a 
pranzo, ma ormai (a parte qualche alimentare) questo sta diventando vero 
anche qui a Milano.
Comunque gli orari dipendono anche dalle leggi dello stato. Ci sono 
regole bizzarre: in quel supermercato notturno era chiuso il reparto 
abbigliamento perch� in quello stato non si possono vendere vestiti di 
notte (o qualcosa del genere... son passati molti anni!)


No, it doesn't.
Joe from Massachusetts

 located in a large shopping mall.
Avevo in mente proprio i negozi piccoli (o semplicemente "normali").
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio, che, finch� pu�, beve birra. :-)
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 notte (o qualcosa del genere... son passati molti anni!)
:-D
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Joseph Curtin wrote:
[...]
Intanto che ci siamo, per l'elettronica dove mi conviene andare? Mi 
ricordo che c'� la catena best-buy, poi non ne ho idea.
Grazie!
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Here is an interesting site regarding shopping. It provides links to all the
sales flyers for many different types of stores.
http://www.sundaysaver.com/
Best Buy is probably the best place for electronics. I have bought hard
drives, mother boards, memory, TVs, video cards, network cards, etc. there.
I bought a TV there in the "returned goods" section and it was a real
bargain. I think someone returned it because it didn't have stereo speakers.
I also bought a microwave there in the "returned goods" section. It was a
real bargain, which someone had returned because it had a chip in the paint.
Staples is also a good place to shop for bargains in electronics, although
their main business is office supplies. Once, when my D-Link router died, I
happened to be in Staples, and they had a Linksys wireless router (also good
for a wired network such as mine) on sale for $10. We also bought a
PC there for $300.
Staples will email their weekly sales flyer,  but I guess you should wait
until you get over here before you set that up.
http://www.staples.com
I imagine you will be assigned an email address at your new digs. You can
still use your old email address, as well as your new email address to
receive mail, but you will probably find it easier to use your new address
to send mail, unless you take some kind of perverse pleasure in going on the
Web to Google or Yahoo to use email.
My ISP provides me with up to 7 email addresses (I only use one), and POP3
service. I use this as my primary address, but I also have 
yahoo.com
 (which
I rarely use, since it doesn't provide free POP3) , and 
bresciaonline.it
,
yahoo.it
, and 
gmail.com
 addresses, all three of which I use, especially to
receive mail, since they all support POP3. I have my email accounts set up
so that I download mail from the four different accounts with one click of
the mouse in Outlook Express. I like to have my email on my PC.
My ISP provides free access to many thousands of newsgroups, including
binary newsgroups, but most ISPs have dropped newsgroups altogether, so you
may have to go online to access a newsgroup, unless you want to pay a
monthly fee for something like Usenet. Maybe you already go online to access
newsgroups over there?
I subscribe to many newsgroups, but only download postings when I access the
individual newsgroups, such as this one. I like to save posts for a while on
my PC. Posts which I send are automatically saved as sent mail by Outlook
Express, which happens to be the email client I use.
Joe from Massachusetts

 pomeriggio è già tutto chiuso ovunque, supermercati a parte?
Qundo tu dici "vero?" significa che devi averlo sentito da qualche
parte questo.  Dove?  La maggior parte dei negozi sono aperti fino
alle 9, alcuni fino alle 10.  Molti supermercati sono aperti 24 ore.
Home Depot vicino a casa mia, una catena di negozi che vende materiale
per rimodernare la casa, e' aperto 24 ore al giorno, quindi puoi
andare a comperarti un lavandino alle due di notte se soffri di
insonnia.
gfc

 newsgroups over there?
There are a few free news servers like 
nntp.aioe.org
, eternal-september
(ex motzarella) and others, and low price ones such as
news.individual.net
 (10 euros per year), but I am not sure whether it's
OK to use them from the States ('cause the server is in Europe, longer
d'load times? ). Besides, free servers are usually limited to text
newsgroups.
At any rate, Giganews has offers as low as $ 2.50 a month, including
binaries. 

 monthly fee for something like Usenet. 
No no, non credo che pagher� per poter scrivere sui newsgroup.
;-)
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 parte questo.  
Pi� o meno. In realt� ricordo fatto la stessa domanda anni fa ad 
un'australiana e la risposta (riferita quindi all'australia) era s�. Ho 
pensato che lo stesso potesse valere anche in America. Poi, una volta 
saputo che l� mangiate molto presto alla sera...
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 pomeriggio � gi� tutto chiuso ovunque, supermercati a parte?
Qundo tu dici "vero?" significa che devi averlo sentito da qualche
parte questo.  Dove?  La maggior parte dei negozi sono aperti fino
alle 9, alcuni fino alle 10.  Molti supermercati sono aperti 24 ore.
Home Depot vicino a casa mia, una catena di negozi che vende materiale
per rimodernare la casa, e' aperto 24 ore al giorno, quindi puoi
andare a comperarti un lavandino alle due di notte se soffri di
insonnia.
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Ha gi� risolto il problema del lavandino. Lo porta con se dall'Italia.
Joe from Massachusetts

 wrote in
message news:Uazem.46173$1s6....@twister2.libero.it...
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Those who pay for newsgroups aren't interested so much in posting as they
are in downloading files from binary newsgroups, such as
alt.binaries.world-languages.
Joe from Massachusetts

 alt.binaries.world-languages.
Ah s�, c'erano anche i gruppi per scaricare. Beh, direi che i torrent mi 
sono sufficienti.
:-)
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If my ISP stops providing me with free access to 71,000 newsgroups, maybe
then I would resort to using torrents.
Joe from Massachusetts

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ROLF!  E sono anche piu' belli di quelli di Home Depot!  Tra l'altro
ho guardato gli orari e Home Depot vicino a casa mia non e' piu'
aperto 24 ore.  Sospetto che non lo siano neppure gli altri Home Depot
in Illinois.  Adesso chiudono presto...alle 11 di sera e riaprono alle
6 di mattina.  Bummer!  What's a girl to do when she needs an 8x4 at 3
AM?
gfc
gfc

Wal-Mart];�
I can't believe it!!! 

 I can't believe it!!! 
Consumismo allo stato puro!
:-D
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