Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Piccola domanda

in your opinion, is it better to say
"a society blessed with.." than "a society based on.."?

 "a society blessed with.." than "a society based on.."?
Significano due cose diverse. 'Blessed' ha un significato religioso e la
connotazione è che la cosa 'with' è buona senz' altro.


I think they have different meanings.  Blessed on has something to do with time
or location.  Ex: I was blessed on Palm Sunday.  or I was blessed on my
birthday.  I was blessed on a ...(location)
Here are some example of blessed with:
Blessed with a good sense of humor
Blessed with a beautiful voice
Blessed with a good dose of intelligence
bye
ari

"a society blessed with.." than "a society based on.."?
Oh I am sorry!  I misread your question....mea culpa!  
I think they have different meanings.  Why don't you give us the whole sentence
or perhaps even the whole paragraph.  
bye
ari

 or perhaps even the whole paragraph.  
Or the whole book, or library. We read very fast. (witty face)
Bye, FB

 
The mean different things: 
the first indicates good fortune bestowed on the society in the form of 
... X
and the second means the foundation or fundamental 
structure/belief/philosophy of a society
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Un-not my address if you wanna reply.


Very funny Balducci.  As a matter of fact, I do read fast, but, as you can see,
not very accurately.
bye
GFC

not very accurately.
Me too. I am a quasi speed reader, but when I speed read in English, I
do not always remember what I read and so I have to go back and slow
down. ^_^ I do speed read in Italian all the time.
Sebastiano
-- 
No wonder people say "gesundheit" when you say "Tchaikovsky".

 Very funny Balducci
That surname must have some appeal for you and Bonardi! Anyhow it hasn't to
do with the shoes.
Bye, FB

do with the shoes.
O sono io scema o le tue allusioni sono al di fuori del mio reame di
esperienze.  Che cosa c'entra Balducci con le scarpe?  
E non e' che io abbia un'attrazione speciale per quel cognome (sorry to
disappoint you!), ma se non conosco il nome di battesimo come vuoi che ti
chiami? (witty face)
bye
ari

 chiami? (witty face)
Frank.
Ciao, FB

E' una marca italiana di scarpe per bambini. 
Ah....U' capi'
ari

 do not always remember what I read
 "I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It
involves Russia."
 (Woody Allen)
Max

involves Russia."
LOL
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, FB says...
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Here in NYC there's a famous gourmet food shop named "Balducci's". Very 
exensive.... 
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expensive.... 
And very good. It's were Will of 'Will & Grace' goes to buy food.
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 And very good. It's were Will of 'Will & Grace' goes to buy food.
I hope it is duly pronounced.
Bye, FB

I hope it is duly pronounced.
You betcha! *evil grin* >:)
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Here in NYC there's a famous gourmet food shop named "Balducci's".
I sort of remember a Father Balducci, in the Saturday Night Live shows of
the early 80s. Am I wrong?
saluti,
Peltio

"Peltio" <pel...@twilight.zone> wrote in message
news:k%Edc.120609$FJ6.4...@twister1.libero.it...
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That was Father Guido Sarducci (a.k.a. Don Novello), gossip columnist
and rock critic for "L'Osservatore Romano". :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 ari
thank you :)

 with"  justifying the fact that it sounds rather better
Better maybe but 'blessed' is a totally different meaning to 'based'
which would be fondamentale' or whatever 'foundation' is. Blessed
implies a gift, while based on would say it's intergral. And is
tourism an unalloyed blessing? hmmmm
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, FB says...
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Well, it's pronounced better than most Italian words here (even some 
surnames! I have a friend whose name is Caputo, and he pronounces it ca-
PYU-to. And there are thousands folks who think they're name is Es-po-SI-
to.)
Anyway, it's pronounced bæl-DU-chee, not bad except for the first "A"
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 to.)
< Their name .
Yours
sal

, Santangelo 
says...
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BIG "oops"!
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That was Father Guido Sarducci (a.k.a. Don Novello),
Yes, him!
Oh well... ucci, ucci... : )
Fancy that, I read about him in "Wired, the short live and the fast times of
John Belushi" and the same night I wrote the previous post the CNN aired a
tribute to John Belushi where Father Sarducci's name came out.
    KING: What was John's scheduled to do when he died?
    "Ghostbusters," right?
    PISANO: Well, first, "Spies Like Us." And he was supposed to be
    working on ...
    AYKROYD: It was "Joy of Sex," "Spies Like Us." It was "Joy
    of Sex," which was going to get "Noble Rot" made, which was
    a film written by Don Novello, Father Guido Sarducci.
    KING: I know him well.
Just to rub it in, I guess...
cheers,
Peltio
che suggerisce anche il Larry King Live come mezzo per avere audio e testo
in inglese americano: si registra lo show e si prende il giorno dopo il
transcript dal sito della CNN