Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Dubbio sintattico

Ho visto questo titolo:
 
California only has about year of water left
 
Qui:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/california-only-has-about-year-of-water-left-2015-3?r=US
 
 
 
Ho qualche dubbio sulla posizone di "only".
 
Queste sono tutte le possibilità:
 
Only California has about year of water left
California only has about year of water left
California has only about year of water left
California has about only year of water left
California has about year only of water left
California has about year of only water left
California has about year of water only left
California has about year of water left only
 
Hanno senso?
Qualcuna mi pare di sì, altre no.
 
 
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 Qualcuna mi pare di sì, altre no.
 
Hai ragione, sì e no.
 
 
 
 

 "a year" e tutt' e due bene.
 
OK, in questo caso il significato è lo stesso.
Ma in altri casi, mi domando, potrebbe esserci una leggera differenza, 
correggetemi se sbaglio.
 
"Mary only eats a small bread roll for dinner."
 
(è tutto quello che mangia)
 
"Mary eats only a small bread roll for dinner."
 
(è tutto il pane che mangia, ma oltre al pane potrebbe mangiare altro)
 
 
E' giusto?

 California only has about year of water left
 
In addition to the missing indefinite article in your transcription, 
"only" is in the wrong place.
 
The way it's written states that all Califnornia has (of everthing) is 
about [a] year of water left.
 
"Only" gets placed in the wrong position way too often.
A good writer will be sure to have it modify the correct word.
 
California has only about a year of water left.
 
(I would have said "one year")
California has only about one year of water left.
 

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Sì, giusto.
 
 

 Hai ragione, sì e no.
 
 
A proposito, IIRC you live in California, right? If so, are you
worried?
 
 
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 California has only about one year of water left.
 
 
How is the weather in NYC? I've heard it has been cold lately.
 
 
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 worried?
 
I try to worry only about things that I'm able to control or influence. 
So, I only worry about my personal use of water, which is always 
restrained, and now even more so. My tomatoes and strawberries still get 
as much water as they need, but when taking a shower, I shut the faucet 
between soap-ups. (This, as you may know, is almost an un-American 
activity.) I suppose you could say that my buon appetito trumps my 
personal hygiene.

 How is the weather in NYC? I've heard it has been cold lately.
 
It hasn't been as bad here as where my family is: New England. It's 
usually colder in Boston, and they just broke a twenty-year record for 
snowfall: over 108 inches. However, one of my cousins mentioned 
Capracotta, east of Rome, where almost that much snow fell in one 
day... I wasn't sure whether to believe him. Does that seem possible? I 
was surprised it's not in the Alps.
 
Yesterday it was so cold and windy here I thought my head was going to 
blow off. I went to a memorial service at Riverside Church, which is on 
a hill overlooking the Hudson River. The wind nearly blew me down a few 
times, and I'm no lightweight. I've never experienced such wind, and 
I've been through several hurricanes.
 
It's mild today, if still a bit cold (4 C) but there's no wind, so I 
will keep my head, even if all about me are losing theirs (with 
apologies to R. Kipling.)
 
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Remember: It is To Laugh
 

 Qualcuna mi pare di sě, altre no.
ehi fox,  you write just like a dork, don't you?
 
 
 
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 of the sentence.
 
 
In italiano "concordanza a senso".
 
 
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 personal hygiene.
 
 
:-)
 
Scarcity should rise price.
:-(
 
 
I live in one of the wettest places in Italy but sometimes a
Summer (or even a Winter) is really dry; and often drought it's
interrupted by a thunderstorm that pours 300 mms (12") in an
hour causing flooding.
 
 
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 theirs (with apologies to R. Kipling.)
 
 
:-)
 
 
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 ehi fox,  you write just like a dork, don't you?
 
 
Someone who has odd interests, and is often silly at times. A
dork is also someone who can be themselves and not care what
anyone thinks.
 
Slang. a silly, out-of-touch person who tends to look odd or
behave ridiculously around others; a social misfit.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dork
 
 
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dork
 
 
dork (plural dorks)
   1. (vulgar, slang) A penis. [from the 20th c.]
   2. (pejorative, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid,
socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with
contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but
does not imply the same level of intelligence. [from the 20th
c.] 
 
Usage notes
Narrowly used to indicate someone inept or out of touch,
broadly used to mean simply "silly, foolish"; compare doofus,
twit.
 
 
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 hour causing flooding.
 
often the drought is interrupted... (Hai un pregiudizo contro gli 
articoli definitivi?) e non si capitalizzano le stagioni.
Perhaps you're one of the people living near the riverbank who Antonioni 
filmed in Gente del Po?
 
 

 who Antonioni filmed in Gente del Po?
 
 
Friuli's plain is split in two: the northern half dry
(permeable soil) and the southern half wet, with flowing
waters (risorgive)
Look at a satellite map: you can see a big white V and a I that
are large dry or almost dry river beds.
On the first Alps mountains there is the rainiest zone, maximum
average about 3000 mm/yr. Autumn is the rainiest season.
 
 
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 average about 3000 mm/yr. Autumn is the rainiest season.
 
La "I" mi sembra invece come uno spaghetto cotto sul pavimento. 
Permettimi indovinare, sei un professore a Udine nel campo scientifico. 
Ma ti raccomando, se rispondi, saprà tutto il mondo per sempre chi è ADPUF.

 tutto il mondo per sempre chi è ADPUF.
 
 
Beh, la NSA, se vuole, sa chi sono.
Ma è una informazione inutile per i loro scopi, una delle
tante.
:-)
 
 
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Joey Dee has chosen the only correct way to state this phrase.
BTW, Joe, how are things in the shadow of the ESB down there in Murray Hill?
Joe from Massachusetts


 
 
Long time no see! :)

 Joe from Massachusetts 
 
 
Hi Joe, how long time, we missed you (I suppose :-)
 
How is the weather in Massachusetts?
 
Happy Easter!
 
 
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 Joe from Massachusetts
 
Yo! Joe from my old haunting grounds! Where have you been? Still in the 
Springfield area? Get a lot of snow, did you?
 
I'm no longer in Murray Hill. Three years ago we moved to SoMo (a name 
I've made up, meaning SOuth of MOrningside) and loving it. Near 
Columbia University and halfway between Riverside Drive/park and Straus 
Park/Broadway.
 
I had a run-in with a bit of a prostate blip, resulting in 40 sessions 
under a linear accelerator, but I'm making it back slowly.
 
(is this TMI, he asked?)
 
There are some things I miss about Murray Hill, but this neighborhood 
is much nicer: quieter, cleaner, much handier to everything I need 
within a five-block radius.
 
Nice to hear from you!
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Does the Springfield area include Northampton?
 

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Yes, within a ten-mile radius, I'd say.
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Thanks Joey :) I asked because there are so many Springfield's in the 
USA and I wasn't sure that only a town had that name in MA.