Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Squeeze, public school, bashers

Dear All,
ancora SOS dalla mia amica alle prese con british slang.
1. Scotland Yard gathered information from small time dealers they'd
managed to turn informant in exchange for a SQUEEZE if they got nicked
anywhere in London
- Io - Anna - qui suggerivo per squeeze  somma di denaro estorta, spec
pizzo, tangente [dal Picchi]. Pare non vada bene, perchè ho ricevuto la
seguente precisazione:
Non credo sia "tangente", è più come se dicessero che la polizia
chiude un occhio se becca un informatore a fare qualcosa di male. 
Per esempio parlando dei riformatori un mafioso dice: "those fucking gaffs
in them days weren't like they are today, a fucking SQUEEZE".
2. Jeremy is PURE PUBLIC SCHOOL  so he don?t trust any cunt. (è uno
spacciatore snob che compra coca all'ingrosso).
(Qui invece andrei sul letterale: "tipo da scuola privata" or something.
Voi che ne dite?)
3. When there was a big football game in town or a fool moon Morty STUCK
A COUPLE OF BASHERS IN THE LOLLY POPS but apart from that they never gave
him a moment?s worry (a proposito di un mafioso che ha rilevato una catena
di pornoshop per proteggerla anche dagli altri delinquenti).
Fine prima infornata!
TIA
-- 
Ciao,
Anna

 something. Voi che ne dite?)
Sì, anche secondo me. Forse anche "Jeremy è tutto scuola pubblica". Perché
privata?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

 privata?
Anna, where do you get these quotations from? They're really OTT!
Giovanni:
Public school = scuola privata (piu o meno)
Private school = scuola privata (anche, ma diversa)
State school = scuola pubblica
Zz

 Private school = scuola privata (anche, ma diversa)
Lezioni/istruttori privati o anche vere e proprie scuole?
-- 
Enrico C
"American supermarkets are humungous"
humungous: really big (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 strada ;))
In days of old, when we rode our trusty steads, we passed on the left so as
to leave our sword arms facing on-coming knights! It makes some sense,
surely!

 PRIVATE - fee paying schools
Aha... now I know why you talk different from wot I do.
-- 
Mary

 surely!
It seems that we Pope's people in Rome went on the left  too. 
In fact, it was us who made the left-hand drive official...  just a
few years ago :P
Later on, the French and the Americans came up with this new idea,
driving on the right, for some weird reasons!
 
QUOTE 
http://us2uk.tripod.com/drive_left.htm
In the Middle Ages you kept to the left for the simple reason that you
never knew who you'd meet on the road in those days. You wanted to
make sure that a stranger passed on the right so you could go for your
sword in case he proved unfriendly. 
This custom was given official sanction in 1300 AD, when Pope Boniface
VIII invented the modern science of traffic control by declaring that
pilgrims headed to Rome should keep left.
The papal system prevailed until the late 1700s, when teamsters in the
United States and France began hauling farm products in big wagons
pulled by several pairs of horses.
These wagons had no driver's seat. Instead the driver sat on the left
rear horse, so he could keep his right arm free to lash the team. 
Since you were sitting on the left, naturally you wanted everybody to
pass on the left so you could look down and make sure you kept clear
of the other guy's wheels. Ergo, you kept to the right side of the
road.
UNQUOTE
-- 
Enrico C
"Don't knock it unless you've tried it"
knock: condemn (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 Mary
LOL Mary!
I knew I wouldn't escape comment over that! And it had to be you... :)
I was half considering keeping shtum! But I'm certain it was obvious anyway,
unless you'd figured I'd slipped through some kind of time warp... Always a
possibility!
Zz

 road.
How did these wagons pass single riders (from England)?
No doubt the cause of many a bridleway pile-up!
Why didn't the driver simply sit on the right rear horse?
Too obvious, I suppose.

 Anna, where do you get these quotations from? They're really OTT!
They're from a book a friend of mine is translating. I can't say I envy
her...
What does "OTT" mean?
-- 
Ciao,
Anna

 What does "OTT" mean?
I just found it, "over the top"...
Yes, definitely!
-- 
Ciao,
Anna



"Over the top", according to what I read in my Dialog newsreader when
I hover the mouse over that acronym :)
-- 
Enrico C
"It's really fab!"
fab: fabulous (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 I hover the mouse over that acronym :)
My mouse keeps quiet... Must be because I haven't got the little golden
star that says I made a donation... ehm...
-- 
Ciao,
Anna Scrooge



Ha ha! :->
No, I think it was hushed by the exclamation mark in Zz's OTT!
But it spoke out about the "OTT"  you wrote :)
-- 
Enrico C
"I am famous for pigging out on chocolate ice cream"
pig out: eat too much (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 But it spoke out about the "OTT"  you wrote :)
Now it works! On the quoted text it didn't.
Trallallà
-- 
Ciao,
Anna

 Trallallà
That's it!   
BTW, if you update to 2.0.10.1 you'll get some enhancements too, such
as Italian acronyms alongside English ones, and you won't see an 
underlined O ="over (to you)" any longer :-)
-- 
Enrico C
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