Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: To OK

 Bush OK'd shootdown of rogue planes
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La tua interpretazione in questo caso è corretta
   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition.  2000.
OK1
PRONUNCIATION:   -k
VARIANT FORMS: or o·kay
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. OK's or o·kays
Informal Approval; agreement: Get your supervisor's OK before taking a day
off.
ADJECTIVE: 1. Agreeable; acceptable: Was everything OK with your stay? 2.
Satisfactory; good: an OK fellow. 3. Not excellent and not poor; mediocre:
made an OK presentation. 4. In proper or satisfactory operational or working
order: Is the battery OK? 5. Correct: That answer is OK. 6. Uninjured; safe:
The skier fell but was OK. 7. Fairly healthy; well: Thanks to the medicine,
the patient was OK.
ADVERB: 1. Used to express approval or agreement. 2. Fine; well enough;
adequately: a television
that works OK despite its age.
*TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: OK'ed or OK'd or o·kayed, OK'·ing or
o·kay·ing, OK's or o·kays
To approve of or agree to; authorize.

Egregi, mai avrei immaginato che OK potesse diventare un verbo;
La facilità con cui quasi ogni termine possa diventare un verbo a me
pare una caratteristica fondante dell'inglese (perlomeno in confronto
alle lingue neoromanze).
Mi sbaglio?
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Ciao
Frank


Si', e con alterni risultati; se non ricordo male, tempo fa girava una
pubblicita' relativa alle attrezzature d ufficio che diceva qualcosa 
come "...a new way to office". In italiano suonerebbe come "un nuovo
modo di ufficiare". Non so se suona altrettanto orrendo alle orecchie 
inglesi.
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I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

Mi sbaglio?
No, sono d'accordo.  How about "to MC" have you ever heard that?
bye
arianna


Che vuol dire?
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 Che vuol dire?
An MC, or Master of Ceremonies, is someone who announces (usually with the help
of a microphone) to a group at political, social, or cultural events. For
example, someone might hire a professional "to MC" at a wedding and guide the
party in the primitive cultural practices of bouquet tossing and garter belt
replacement (to gusty cheers of "higher" from the crowd).
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 modo di ufficiare".
Visto così, 'office' sembra essere sostantivo, non verbo
[cfr. 'the way to the flat/the church/London']. Almeno,
suona meno orrendo.
Matteo

suona meno orrendo.
L'intenzione di quella pubblicita' era di usare eplicitamente
'to office' come verbo; niente a che vedere con moto a luogo.
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 'to office' come verbo; niente a che vedere con moto a luogo.
That's quite a blow to my non-English ears -- they nearly got
KO'd, actually.
Matteo


It is ugly, yes, but it probably can be excused since it is (hopefully) just
advertising language. I don't believe people will use it seriously.
But what about KO'd ? May be it should be K'dO...
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 But what about KO'd ? May be it should be K'dO...
The Concise Oxford Dictionary OK's KO'd.
Matteo

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A TKO to the man in the blue corner. :-)
Loki
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  Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare

   Brevity is the soul of wit.    W.Shakespeare
That's one of the reasons why I'm sticking to the
concise edition of the Oxford Dictionary.
Matteo

 Matteo
Is that 'blunders', perchance? :-))))
Loki
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 Is that 'blunders', perchance? :-))))
Oh well. That's anybody's guess, isn't it. :)
I wonder if you're familiar with regional (British) accents?
Matteo

 I wonder if you're familiar with regional (British) accents?
As far as spelling goes, no. It is a vast unchartered wasteland.
:-)))
I gave up trying to read Treasure Island after the first few pages
because of the dialect spelling Stevenson used for the characters'
speech.
Cheers,
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 speech.
If you let me know your post address I'll send you the Italian
translation. :) Ciao
Matteo

 As far as spelling goes, no. It is a vast unchartered wasteland.
That should be 'uncharted wasteland'
Loki

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What? in dialetto ? :-(  
I'd probably better understand it in italiano than what he did use,
that's for sure!
:-)))
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