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

Giò
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Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Soracte nec iam sustineant onus
silvae laborantes geluque
flumina constiterint acuto?
(Orazio - Odi I, 9)
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"Ancora non riesco a capire come gli sia venuta in mente"
(Richard Feynman, riferendosi alla Relatività)
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 allora io ne trarrň le conseguenze, e allora sta attento pure tu".
This is the most useless answer ever written, but I can only recollect that
we've already discussed on the prefix "schm". Isn't it some Jewish-American
thing?
Bye, FB
-- 
"Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with
education?" "She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of
respectability" "It is obviously the same person".
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

"X, schm(X senza la prima lettera)" e' molto comune.
"Nazi, Schmazi"
"sausages, schmausages"
Vuol dire "Ah, chi se ne frega di X?"

La costruzione "<XXXX>, shm<XXXX>" viene di solito usata per indicare
irrisione rispetto ad una parola (in questo caso <XXXX>... Credo di
averla vista anche usata con altre parole oltre "consequences", ma non
ne sono sicurissimo.
In questo caso si puo' leggere come un "conseguenze? miiii
cheppaura!"... non mi sembra che ci sia un equivalente italiano!
CIaaa
PF

 cheppaura!"... non mi sembra che ci sia un equivalente italiano!
I was about to say "I should worry!", when I realized it was English,
too...
Bye, FB
-- 
"You must have had a most happy childhood there."
"Er, it was terrific."
"I'm so glad."
"No, I didn't mean it that way."
"I'm so sorry."
("The Philadelphia Story")

 Isn't it some Jewish-American thing?
Yes. You're not very likely to hear it in the UK.
-- 
Mary

grazie
E' un uso della lingua yiddish che l'inglese ha mutuato. L'apposizione
del prefisso "sch-" a qualunque nome equivale più o meno al nostro "E
chi se ne frega" o "Macché"... vedi la famosa barzelletta (in
frettolosa traduzione) in cui due mamme ebree parlano dei figli; una
dice "Mio figlio continua ad andare dallo psicanalista per curarsi il
complesso di Edipo" e l'altra risponde "Sì, beh, Edipo, Schmedipo!
L'importante è che voglia tanto bene alla sua mamma!"
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscali.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/index.htm

Vuol dire "Ah, chi se ne frega di X?"
ah. e viene dallo yiddish (o dal tedesco)?
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Yes. You're not very likely to hear it in the UK.
Untermenschen...
:o)))))))
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L'importante è che voglia tanto bene alla sua mamma!"
Ah, ho capito.
Tocca che chiedo su it.cultura.ebraica, o magari a mia nonna...
Vediamo che ne capo fuori.
PS grazie :)
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Not just Jewish American, although it has its origin with Yiddish
speakers.
I can hear a New Yorker saying, "Jackson, Schmackson, why can't we
have coverage of real news on television?"
Joe from Massachusetts

 have coverage of real news on television?"
Like how much he's paid to be cleared.
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)

Like how much he's paid to be cleared.
What do you know about it?
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 What do you know about it?
Come on, it seems to me as everybody's known it for years now: he's so rich
that he could've hushed it all up, had it not been so patent. If I recall
correctly, even the child who played in "Home alone" (do you remember?),
who is awfully rich now and thus would appear unbribable, has asserted to
have received some sort of advances from M.J. He has declared that he's
slept, naked, with other people's children (who the hell are their parents,
by the way? But that's another story). Everybody else in the West would
have gone directly to prison.
Now he was in a tight corner apparently, so in the end he did do something
to get off scot-free. And all those lobotomized fans out of the courthouse
who "knew" he was not guilty? It's a bad, bad business, in my opinion...
Bye, FB
-- 
"Qualcuno, meglio se un poliziotto, dovrebbe comunicare a Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx che scrivere noir non fa per lui. Per il suo bene (e il
nostro, soprattutto)."
(Recensione di Antonio D'Orrico sul Corriere della Sera Magazine)

who "knew" he was not guilty? It's a bad, bad business, in my opinion...
boh. mai pensato che si tratti tutta di una manovra per distogliere
l'opinione pubblica da ben altre cose?
ogni tanto io ci penso seriamente...
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