Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: nothing for case happens:-)

Today I was in gym and I noticed that my mate had a tatoo. I asked him 
obviously in Italian "what is it written?" and he showed me it
I read "nothing for case happens" in English
I couldn't believe what I was seeing;
So I said him that the sentence was wrong becasue the correct one should be 
"nothing happens by chance".
He said also that the tatooer (tatuatore) suggested him a phrase which 
contains a word like chance, but he said he wanted written "for case"
Can I do a tatoo's writer??:-)
P.S: when I think he has to keep this one for all your life, I get to 
laughing
Let me know if I goof!
Francesco 

 I couldn't believe what I was seeing;
me neither

 Today I was in gym and I noticed that my mate had a tatoo.
For some reason, I find the use of "mate" coming from non-English people 
very unnatural.
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Don't f*ck with me bitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.

 Let me know if I goof!
"By chance" to say "per caso" is correct, I think ... 

 very unnatural.
Ops:-(
I'm not a gay. Perhaps writing "mate" I hint he was my boyfriend..
I saw that "mate" means "amico/a" too
Francesco 

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Grazie per le tue correzioni
Francesco 

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fran...@tiscali.it
 
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Don't worry about it, mate. We say it all the time.
And I'm not gay either! ;)
-- 
Raymot
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Brisbane, Aus.

 And I'm not gay either! ;)
English are people divided by the same language!
Kiuhnm

 English are people divided by the same language!
Not really.
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 I saw that "mate" means "amico/a" too
I know what you mean with that "mate", don't worry.
But as I said, it looks like you're trying [too] hard to sound 
"English". But don't worry about it too much, it's probably just me.
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kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it
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There's truth in that. And perhaps International English
is bring the peoples of the world further apart!
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Peoples??:-)

 English are people divided by the same language!
Mi potresti spiegare meglio cosa intendi con "divided"?
Vuoi dire che la lingua inglese è unica, ma ci sono sempre e comunque le due 
varianti AmE e BrE?

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Yes, peoples.
Kiuhnm

 Mi potresti spiegare meglio cosa intendi con "divided"?
A bit of lateral thinking wouldn't hurt...
Kiuhnm

 Yes, peoples.
Scusami, perchè peopleS??
People non è di per se plurale?

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No :)
'people' _ha_ un plurale, che viene usato per parlare di 'popoli',
'popolazioni' (the peoples of Europe, brotherhood among peoples, barbarian
peoples...)
Hai un buon dizionario su CD-ROM, che ti permetta di effettuare ricerche
avanzate? E' utilissimo. Anche se, in questo caso, era sufficiente cercare
il lemma 'people' per risolvere il dubbio.
-- 
Anna

 People non è di per se plurale?
One person, two people, three peoples.
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
-- 
"E come si sa?" "Da una serie di deduzioni per il rispetto che si deve 
all'intelligenza."


Ok.
E' come dire quindi Italians per intendere il popolo italiano

 il lemma 'people' per risolvere il dubbio.
I wish I had an euro for every time we recommended a good dictionary to 
Francesco.
Kiuhnm


mha...non mi sembra che sia proprio cosě
Io avrei detto
"one person, two people, three people"

 mha...non mi sembra che sia proprio cosě [...]
I was just being silly.
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Ahhhh:-)
But you know that a person like me could getting a hold of the wrong end of 
the stick

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la forma verbale semmai � sbagliata, dev'essere "is bringing"=
In case the verbal form is wrong, it must be "is bringing" .
peoples og the world = popoli del mondo 

peoples og the world = popoli del mondo 
Sì, ho inteso "bringing". Typo
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Peoples is used in a global or anthropological sense.
"The native peoples (tribes) of Botswana.
"The Italians are one people, and the Australian are another,
although less so these days."
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