Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: A little exercise

This is an excerpt from a web site:
Instructions
Read the text and then type this missing word in the box on the right.
Although it has a reputation for being rather basic in terms of home
comforts, the modern material used in (1) ... manufacture of tents means
camping is at least a (2) ... less hard work. Nowadays tents are (3) ...
lightweight that you hardly notice you're carrying them. They're easy to
(4) ... up yet still a cheaper alternative to hotel accomodation.
<...cut...>
I was wrong in answering to questions 2 and 4 according to the given
solution.
But since I'm convinced that my answers are correct too I ask you
to answer these two questions and then I'll
tell you what my solutions were( I want to know how you would have
answered them before telling you  how I did)

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I answered "set up"("put up" also occurred  to me, but as I thought they 
were both correct I picket up one of them), and it seems wrong...

 were both correct I picket up one of them), and it seems wrong...
well, I don't know, it might be... any expert?

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I've read through the succeeding posts, and I'm a little confused... are you 
to choose whatever word you want to insert in the blank, or were you to 
choose from a list?
I would have used "little" for question 2, because of the "at least"... 
somehow that implies "a small improvement."
As for number 4, "set up" is what I would expect here, although "put up" is 
also possible.. I can't think of anything else just now. At any rate, "set 
up" is certainly *not* wrong.
In my opinion you got a perfect score.
-- 
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh.

 In my opinion you got a perfect score.
Thanks, I trust you a lot more than that site :-)

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As I already said somewhere else in this ng, this type of exercise is
made using a special software through which the developer provides
both the exercise and the answer(s) he/she thinks are correct, or can
think of at the time of writing the exercise. The software then turns
the exercise into an html file, publishable on the Internet. If the
developer does not think of one particular answer then that one will
be considered "wrong" (but we'd better say "not recognisable") even
though it might be perfectly correct. E.g. if you have to insert the
simple present negative auxiliary in a sentence like "He _____ work"
and the developer hasn't thought of "does not" but only of "doesn't"
then "does not" will be marked wrong. Another risk is spelling
mistakes while providing the answers. There's no solution, computers
are stupid (and it's not even their fault).
Today I was playing a flash game on a BBC website and I did write a
couple of perfectly correct answers, identical to the ones given as
right , which were mysteriously marked wrong. I think there might have
been a similar problem when writing the script. Rather annoying
though! :-)
Ciao
Claudia

 are stupid (and it's not even their fault).
Yes I knew that, as a matter of fact I have on my back some exams "in
Ingegneria
Informatica" (come tradurre qui in inglese? ...bohh!)
That's why I wrote here, I wanted to be sure that my answers(not
predicted by the author of that exercise) were indeed
correct.

 Here it is: 
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/oclts1.htm
By the way, I have never been able to get to this web site. The server just 
stops responding. Just FYI.
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I've never had any problem...maybe your provider has some sort of filter 
or it's a DNS problem, you could try changing them....

 Informatica" (come tradurre qui in inglese? ...bohh!)
I say computer engineering

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How do you say "software engineering" in Italian?
Joe from Massachusetts

 How do you say "software engineering" in Italian?
ingegneria del software, quite different from ingegneria informatica

 ingegneria del software, quite different from ingegneria informatica
How do you say "hardware engineering" in Italian?
Joe from Massachusetts

 How do you say "hardware engineering" in Italian?
Is this a sort of game? Whit these questions, do you want to say that 
"computer engineering" is not the right translation for "ingegneria 
informatica"? If so, just say that and reveal what you think suits better.
However, I don't know how to translate to Italian "hardware engineering".

 However, I don't know how to translate to Italian "hardware engineering".
Neither do I.
Like most computer, software, and IT job descriptions, it means different
things to different people in the US. You have only to look at the job
description for positions of Hardware Engineer at different companies to see
how differently each company defines this job category.
To some, a Hardware Engineer designs the complex circuitry  for
microprocessors or other complex integrated circuits, and translates the
logic into the artwork used to etch the wafers used to manufacture the
microprocessors, so he must be an expert in CAD in addition to being a
skilled design engineer. When a microprocessor consisted of less than
one hundred thousand transistors, a Hardware Engineer might be able to do
all of this work, but now that the typical microprocessor contains fifty or
sixty million transistors, the design task is too immense, and has been
split among many levels of engineers and designers.
A Hardware Engineer might also be responsible for the design of a
motherboard, and not be involved in chip design, now that chipsets have
become so complex, with the programming of the chipsets left to the
Software Engineer.
Similarly the titles "perito tecnico" and "Electronics Technician" cover a
very broad spectrum, which have little to do with actual job requirements.
Joe from Massachusetts