Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Heavy rain to hit London next week

Salve,
 
potreste spiegarmi perchè viene usato l'infinito
(to hit)?
 
Da un punto di vista grammaticale come va
considerato?
 
Grazie

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Credo che manchi un verbo essere, che spesso viene omesso
per brevita' nei titoli dei giornali (come in italiano)
 
La frase completa e' "...rain is to hit London..."
 
La forma is + verbo all'infinito indica un evento atteso nel futuro
o anche un obbligo, ma non sembra questo il caso :-)
 
In pratica si traduce con "una forte pioggia dovrebbe colpire londra
la prossima settimana"
 
ciao
Giacomo

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Hai ragione. Indica un evento atteso nel futuro, ma penso che "dovrebbe" 
implichi più dubbio della frase originale in inglese. Forse colpirà va 
meglio.
 
Che ci pensate?
 

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Sono d'accordo. Be + to, per quanto ne so, indica un dovere o un evento 
ineluttabile nell'immediato futuro. Aggiungo che nei titoli dei giornali 
questa forma è usatissima e il verbo essere non compare mai, secondo la 
mia esperienza.

 essere non compare mai, secondo la mia esperienza.
 
 
Non potrebbe essere una forma abbreviata di 
"heavy rain (is going) to hit London." ?
 
 
-- 
AIOE ³¿³  

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Suppongo che dipendi dall'imaginazione cosa è sottointesa.
 
A heavy rain is to hit London next week.
A heavy rain is going to hit London next week.
A heavy rain is about to hit London next week.
A heavy rain is predicted to hit London next week.
A heavy rain is forecast to hit London next week.
A heavy rain is destined to hit London next week.
 

 considerato?
it's better to bring the umbrella, before going work next monday
 
 
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www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/2001/hal9000/momento.mp3
 

 monday
 
 
Everybody in London wears a bowler hat and has an umbrella
going work.
 
 
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AIOE ³¿³  

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You guys know that it's "going to work," right?
Actually, it should be "when going to work."
Or, "and takes an umbrella to work."
 
 
 

Tony the Ice Man 05:30, lunedì 1 giugno 2015:
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Thanks!
 
Does the umbrella-maker takes an umbrella to work?
 
 
Sometimes I go somewhere with an umbrella and then I come back
without it...
 
 
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AIOE ³¿³  

 without it...
 
Where have all the umbrellas gone, long time passing?
 

 Where have all the umbrellas gone, long time passing?
 
Gone to young girls, every one!
When will they ever learn?
 
-- 
Et interrogabant eum turbae dicentes: “Quid ergo faciemus?”.
Respondens autem dicebat illis: “Qui habet duas tunicas,
det non habenti; et, qui habet escas, similiter faciat”.
(Ev. sec. Lucam 3,10-11)

 without it...
 
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
the lonely night dreaming of a song...
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Though I dream in vain, in my heart it will remain, my stardust melody
 

 Does the umbrella-maker takes an umbrella to work?
 
The umbrella maker makes umbrellas for all who don't make umbrellas for themselves. 
Does the umbrella maker make umbrellas for himself? :)
 
ciao
Giacomo

 Where have all the umbrellas gone, long time passing?
 
 
BTW with regard to umbrellas, Italian cartoonist Carlo Altan:
 
http://www.google.it/search?q=carlo+altan+ombrello
 
http://www.google.it/search?q=carlo
 altan
ombrello&oe=utf-8&aq=t&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=it&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
 
 
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AIOE ³¿³  

 Does the umbrella maker make umbrellas for himself? :)
 
 
He went to his next door friend, the barber, to ask his advice
on that question.
 
They are still there.
 
 
-- 
AIOE łżł  


nice point!, I suggest also those ideas
 
[ ] umbrella makers? damn!, who cares?! they usually have lemos
 
[ ] the barber and the crazy umbrella maker one day, they will find
the smart solution for this fucking dilemma: so take it easy, bring a
chair, and have a beer!
 
[ ] umbrellas are usually made in china, and china workers are
poor people, so the answer to the tough question is... no! the
umbrella makers ain't any fucking umbrellas, because they are poor
chinese bastards
 
[ ] umbrella maker, damn! it sounds like to resident evil stuffs, don't
you?!
 
[ ] let's enlarge the fucking panel about the umbrella's dilemma to the
raincoat makers, I guess they will find cool solution for this tough
dilemma
 
 
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www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/2001/hal9000/momento.mp3
 

 
 
 
I suggest you this idea:
save or borrow 3000 €uros and spend some time in the USA,
practicing your English, that looks a little bit lacking of
latitude.
Try to have a wider spectrum of modes in speaking.
 
 
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AIOE ³¿³  

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The price of oil may have fallen, but the price of transatlantic flights 
remains buoyant. I'm afraid that a budget of 3000 Euro would support a 
stay too short to have the desired effect, even if it were in a cheap 
roadside motel off of Interstate 20. And then, the lessons learned might 
be more dramatically cultural than linguistic.
 

Tony the Ice Man 21:41, domenica 7 giugno 2015:
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To stay there a longer time he could try to be guest of a
local correction facility...
 
 
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AIOE ³¿³  

 Try to have a wider spectrum of modes in speaking.
listen man,  I know in the long term I can boost my AmE speaking,
simply on watching great links via youtube just like that
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96_1h9BxqUA
 
 
or having fun on watching cool serials, just like 
http://www.free-tv-video-online.info/internet/stargate_sg-1/
 
 
or same stuff, on watching a much more difficult tv serial 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWD8O0DrxI
 
 
This damn tv serials is quite hard for me, because for first Mork spoked
too fast to for me, and he spoke in a very odd way too. 
 
Second there's a lots of fucking american 197x tv ads quoting in the
Mork text, so the humour is not so easy to understand for an italian
man in 2015. 
 
Despite those limits, I have to say that Mindy and all others characters
int the tv serial spoke quite clear for me, so after all, the old Mork &
Mindy serial in American English is cool stuff, and I have fun!.
 
It's also a smart exercise for me, traslating cool bluegrass/country
music songs, just like this one
 
https://youtu.be/CWs6ZiwMQhU
 
 
or many others.
 
There's a lot of great files via youtube and if you put them
together a good satellite tv programs at night, belive me!, in the
long term all those stuffs make miracles on boosting the multicore
chipset American english emulator in your mind.
 
Yah!, may be on writing I may sound odd sometimes, but not in
the long term! 'cause I know I'm getting better and better.
 
All those damn stuffs are free good ideas, but not fucking
cheap solutions to boost english skills, and without playing
english grammar sudoku... and you know what I mean!
 
cheerio
 
 
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www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/2001/hal9000/momento.mp3