Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: charmed

I was looking at this cartoon:
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/RepublicanConvention2004/images2/asay.gif
In it I notice that Rudolph Giuliani answers to an introduction using
"charmed".
I'm puzzled because he's speaking with a man, not a woman.
"Charmed" means "affascinare, incantare, deliziare, rapire; stregare". I
would have used it when I meet a woman only. Is is correct to say "charmed"
when you meet a man ?
thanks
Lapo

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Offhand, I would say no. It's a little unusual even when meeting a woman,
unless you're trying to ... charm her. :)
-- 
Pear pea a chair, Ray. Core Reggie eel me oh eat alien, oh... :)
Joey DoWop, working on a temporary account.

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"Charmed, I'm sure" was an old fashioned term used by the upper
classes. Nobody uses that, or "charmed" anymore, unless they are
trying to be mildly funny.

 unless you're trying to ... charm her. :)
Thank you Joey and thanks to Jonny too.
The equivalen italian is "Incantato". It is a very knightly way of doing a
compliment to a woman you've just meet. You can do it even if she is
accompanied by his husband. It is not used by youth in every day life but it
is appropriate in chic parties, meetings, conferences, theatres ...  I like
to use it.
I guess I can use it in the same circumstances in English too....
Lapo

 accompanied by his husband. It is not used by youth in every day
life but it
his husband? I thought this was unique to Massachusetts. :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 his husband? I thought this was unique to Massachusetts. :>)
Oops. Missed that one.
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 his husband? I thought this was unique to Massachusetts. :>)
I see the error but don't understand what you mean.
Bye, FB
-- 
L'importante è che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
(Lucangel su it.cultura.libri)


In Massachusetts a man can now have a husband (and a woman can have a
wife).
Joe from Massachusetts

 wife).
The idea is grotesque and irreligious, say/quote I.
Bye, FB
-- 
Io ho deciso di rifiutarmi di vederlo: Ettore con la faccia di Eric Banana
mi fa venire i conati.
(commento sul film "Troy" apparso su it.fan.scrittori.tolkien)

 The idea is grotesque and irreligious, say/quote I.
":(", say I.
Sebastiano
-- 
Amy : Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work. 

 ":(", say I.
Riferito a chi/cosa?
P.S. 7.42 della domenica?! Ma tu sei ppazzo.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"What meaning of this, Mitter Twain?". "I will tell you, Mr Wang, if you
can tell me why a man who possesses one of the most brilliant minds of this
century can't say his prepositions or articles".
(Murder by Death)

 P.S. 7.42 della domenica?! Ma tu sei ppazzo.
Sleeping is for sissies. :)
Sebastiano
-- 
Jack Bauer : I'm federal agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of
my life. 

 Sleeping is for sissies who didn't drink too much the night before. :)
RIGHT :)
I woke up at 2:00 pm -_-;;;;;;;

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Well, I went to sleep at two, so it's was not that late, but I was quite
dizzy. :)
The day before I was *very* dizzy (I went to a disco and it was the
birthday of a friend of mine who works there. FREE ALCOHOL!) and I *died*
in bed at 4 A.M. I was reborn from my own ashes AT 9. 
In order to wake up at 2 PM, I would have to have been "totaled" the night
before. I can imagine myself waking up at 2 in the afternoon, but only if I
went to sleep in the morning (and with morning I mean 7-8 AM).
Since it's not common for me to drink that much, I can't be sure. :)
I usually sleep for about 6 hours.
Sebastiano
-- 
[after allowing Dr. Kelso to slip]
Janitor : I liked the way blond-hair-doctor looked. She brightened my day.
But you don't care about that, do you? No... because you're unconscious. 

 Sebastiano
I also happened to sleep 3 hours a day.
After doing that for a whole week I was knackered.

 There was a nuclear war in my head and my stomach was doing somersaults.
Oh no... you've reminded me of that Christmas when I awoke to the pains of
Hell in every part of my being, having spent Christmas Eve drinking my
friend's father's home-made wine (we were drinking it out of paper cups,
and we had to drink fast, because the bottoms of the cups kept falling
out!)
For some strange reason, someone decided that it would be better to walk to
midnight mass drinking beer from bottles than home-made wine from cups, so
we switched to beer. It was snowing like the dickens that night. I remember
the five (six? seven? twelve? I don't remember *that* much) of us walking
down the center line of Washington Street, a major thoroughfare, in the
snow, drinking beer and dancing, singing Christmas carols (there was little
traffic because it was snowing heavily, midnight, and Christmas eve.)
The *last* thing I remember was standing in church at the very beginning of
the High Mass. I thought I'd better ask the guy next to me to be sure to
tell me when to kneel, when to stand, and when to sit down, because I
wasn't really too sure of anything.
The rest is anecdotal, related from the others, as I was unconscious. They
say I raised my hands to my face, bent over slightly, and vomited on the
pew in front of me. Oh, and then I passed out.
The three rows of people who had accompanied me to church all rose up at
once, picked me up and carried me horizontally from the church.
This led to the worst Christmas Day in history. I never did it again.
(The funny part of this is that my sister was in the group with me that
night. Since she wasn't able to "attend mass" the night before, she had to
go the next day with my parents and my brother. I was "sick" and so I
stayed at home. Where do you think they ended up sitting? The very same row
I had vomited in, and there was that green stuff all over the floor, you
know, that stuff they use to wipe up "spills." My sister swears she could
still "smell it." She reminds me of it every so often...)
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 The idea is grotesque and irreligious, say/quote I.
I don't suppose they can get married in church, so religion really
doesn't come into it.
-- 
Mary

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I guess nobody's understood my "quote I"... It's a line uttered by Lady
Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest".
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 Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest".
No, sorry.
It's not a frequently heard quote, and I'd quite forgotten it.
-- 
Mary

 still "smell it." She reminds me of it every so often...)
Oh s**t :-)

 pew in front of me. Oh, and then I passed out.
Were you excommunicated? (smiling face)
Bye, FB
-- 
Just as I thought. Another test that could have cost us our lives, saved
only by the fact that I am enormously well-bred.
(Murder by Death)

> Can you say "paper glass", or is it a contradiction in terms?
No. As soon as a glass is made up of anything but glass it becomes a cup:
plastic cup, styrofoam cup, paper cup, ceramic cup.

 why did they take you away horizontally? Did you faint???
Yes, I fainted, but since I'm a guy (heehee) I don't say things like "I
fainted" which would make me sound like the sissy I am, so I said "I passed
out" which means the same thing as "I fainted" but is more butch.  :)
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 Were you excommunicated? (smiling face)
I volunteered to be excommunicated. (smart face)
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 out" which means the same thing as "I fainted" but is more butch.  :)
I knew "to pass out" meant "to lose consciousness" but I trust you :)