Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: TELL ME MORE

Perchè su un corso su dvd intitolato tell me more tutte le parole che
finiscono con T le pronunciano  con Z:
Cioè: cat viene pronunciato con la Z finale...
saluto

 taken as a disclaimer.

 and you don't need to cultivate that  pronunciation.
Yeah, and I'm quite sure she doesn't need to post the same question twice, 
either.
Tschau,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
P.S. L'either è venuto un po' troppo alla fine della frase. Is that still 
acceptable?
-- 
"I'm not a gay pirate, I have sex with my parrot all the time! OK, that came 
out wrong."

 twice, either.
If you look carefully, you'll see she posted it three times! :-)
Kiuhnm

 If you look carefully, you'll see she posted it three times! :-)
And three times it is.
:-D
Tschau,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
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 acceptable?
It's perfectly fine in my book. (My book hasn't been published yet, but there 
are lots of interested parties! :-)
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 are lots of interested parties! :-)
Se vuoi ti trovo un traduttore in dialetto romagnolo and then you'll surely 
make a fortune.
;-)
Tschau,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
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 immediato l'uso di "either".
There seems to be a very slight difference between using "also" and 
"(n)either" and I don't know if I can express it but I'll try.
Original statement: "Yeah, and I'm quite sure she doesn't need to post the 
same question twice, either."
"she doesn't need to ... either" seems consistent with the meaning "among 
other things she doesn't need to do, there is this thing."
"she also doesn't need to...." has more emphasis on "something she needn't do 
*in addition to* something else."
I think that's it, at least in my mind. 
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 Thrice!
Esatto. "Thrice" non so mai se posso usarlo perchè tutti i dizionari dicono 
che è "old-fashioned" e quando viene usato ad esempio in Friends il pubblico 
si mette a ridere. Boh!
:-/
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 Thrice!
That the first thing I wrote, but then I remembered that it's very 
unfashionable.
Kiuhnm

 
Yes, but knowing that, you can use it when you want to mean "three times" and 
get a laugh!
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 get a laugh!
Fortuna allora che mi sono sempre trattenuto dall'usarlo in contesti più 
seri!
:-)
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 "(n)either" and I don't know if I can express it but I'll try.
perfectly clear in my opinion, thanks

 get a laugh!
Su 
cdanddvdbargains.com
 ho appena letto:
<<you wont get that with WWE though - they dont have an off season, and they 
have TV shows thrice weekly, and only 1 week a year is not new programming 
(xmas week with year in reviews etc).
so i think there should be a Wrestling section - of course that would 
include discussion of any wrestling, anywhere in the world.>>
"thrice" here is not meant to be funny, right?
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Apparently not. It's a British site. (They talk funny.)  :-]
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Or Sunday a week.
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 Or Sunday a week.
I don't get it.
:-/
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Sorry. It was an obtuse attempt at a joke.
"Thrice in a fortnight" is quintessentially British, as is
"Sunday a week" (meaning, I believe, "next Sunday.")
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 "Sunday a week" (meaning, I believe, "next Sunday.")
Mai sentito. Al massimo ho trovato "a week on Saturday"... sicuro che non ti 
riferisci a questo?
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Oh heck again. Maybe it isn't British and maybe it means "last Sunday" 
instead of "next Sunday."
I didn't have a lot of patience looking for references but I did find this:
"The fat comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood 
pal, now an undertaker in Ohio.
'This is Elwood P. Suggins,' he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube 
twang. 'My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a 
job.'
Said the undertaker: 'Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?'
Replied the comic: 'Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell 
that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and 
he commenced to get pretty fleshy . . .' "
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 a week of Sundays= un periodo di sette settimane.
That is so clear.
:-/
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 time befxre yxzu're xut xf the wxxds!»
x = o, but what's the point?
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