Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Alcune frasi...

sempre prese dai sottotitoli di Friends :), alcune le ho tradotte, ma
vorrei conferma:
Breaking up sucks
(riferito a due che si sono lasciati)
You know, it's a lot less surprising to do that...
after I've buzzed you into the building.
(Monica entra di cercando di sorprendere Phoebe, e lei le dice la
frase)
So that's what I'd look like if I worked out.
(Chandler guarda dei fotomontaggi di lui in posizioni gay)
-This isn't about people not caring. This is about people not having
a decent outlet for their grief.
-You're right. There isn't a decent outlet.
-Right.
(qui chiedo l'aiuto di Sebapop, anche perchè e' un po' complicato
descrivere tutta la scena..e lui sicuramente sa gia' di che parlo
^__^)
How do you think I got him in the first place?
(Riferito ad un pupazzo a cui Joey è molto legato e non vuole
condividerlo con la bambina)
GRAZIE 1000...anzi di piu' ;)

condividerlo con la bambina)
Come pensi che me lo sia procurato (che l'abbia avuto)?
Immagino vuole fare intendere alla bambina che ha faticato molto per
averlo o che ci tiene molto pwerchè è un regalo ecc.
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^__^)
Ti ha già risposto correttamente rollerbd. Credo che il termine outlet
pronunciato da Ross (you're right. There isn't a decent outlet) sia
sempre traducibile con sfogo. Non ho qui i DVD - li ho prestati -
quindi non ricordo il tono che usa Ross. Se tale tono fosse
sarcarstico, allora intendeva outlet nel senso di negozio.
Non penso perché dopo Chandler dice "Right, I mean, come on, I'm sure
that if you had a funeral or a memorial service, tons of people would
come.".
Sebastiano
-- 
Aisle bee ware yew wont mi two b;
Isle b yore ayes;
Aisle pleas u;
Yew no u knead mi, deer.

 frase)
I am not watching Friends, but from your description of the scene Phoebe is
in the apartment. Monica a few moment earlier was at the entrance to the
building, rang the bell for the apartment, Phoebe pressed a button to
release the door lock. This produced a buzzing sound at the entrance door to
signal to Monica that she now could press the door open. "I've buzzed you
into building" means that I pressed the button to let you into the building.
-- 
Xakero

into building" means that I pressed the button to let you into the building.
Absolutely correct. I didn't notice that this phrase was left
untranslated.
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come.".
se deve mettere i sottotitoli scarico è la parola giusta in entrambi i
casi (angoscia , sistema di drenaggio).
Mi sto facendo una cultura sull'umorismo di Friends a quanto pare..
ancora una volta qui uno parla di cose intime, personali e l'altro se
ne esce con cose che non c'entrano niente.. roba da fargli un occhio
nero, insomma :)
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 (Chandler guarda dei fotomontaggi di lui in posizioni gay)
work out = exercise (do body building exercises)
-- 
Xakero

 condividerlo con la bambina)
I guess you're puzzled by the idiom "in the first place".
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=in%20the%20first%20place
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=first*15+0&dict=I&desc=in%20the%20first%20place
A person of Italian mother tongue will have to help you with this. "Come
pensi che l'abbia ottenuto originalmente"?
Or does "in the first place" refer to the verb "think"? "Per cominciare,
come pensi che l'abbia ottenenuto"?
Sebba to the fore!
-- 
Xakero

 O forse mi hai plonkato ?
Oops!
Plonkato? No.
Ritardo? No.
The fact is I read your post of 21 Oct. much too superficially and was under
the impression that those two points had not yet been replied to.
Thanks for pointing it out. Cosě imparerň!
-- 
Xakero

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news:3f95849e...@news.tiscalinet.it...
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I'm not so sure if there was meant to be a play on words, i.e. a play on the
word buzz.
Probably, before Phoebe pressed the button for the buzzer to let Monica into
the building, there was a verbal communication between them on the Intercom
in order to identify the person requesting access, or there could be a
closed circuit television camera for visual identification. Hence my
thinking that Phoebe simply points out to Monica the impossibility that
Monica could have surprised her (Phoebe) with her (Monica's) presence.
-- 
Xakero

Sebba to the fore!
Aye, Cap'n! ;)
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nero, insomma :)
Più o meno. Chandler ha messo su un blog di vecchi compagni di scuola
un messaggio che dice che Ross è morto per vendicarsi del fatto che
Ross ha messo un messaggio dove c'è scritto che Chandler è gay.
All'inizio Ross è felice perché si rende conto che lo scherzo di
Chandler non ha avuto successo (zero risposte), poi si rende conto che
a nessuno importa che lui sia morto.
Riporto la scena:
[Scene: Ross's Apartment: Ross is doing something on his laptop when
Chandler walks in]
Chandler: Hey, Ross, I just wanted to apologize... (looks at laptop
screen)..don't tell me you actually made those gay pictures of me?
Ross: uhu uhu, check this out. (Chandler sits down and looks at laptop
screen)
Chandler: Huh! So that's what I would look like if I worked out... and
was being serviced by a policeman. You're not actually going to send
these out are ya?
Ross: Eh..actually no, I don't need to because your little "Ross is
dead" joke didn't work, ok, there were no responses. Nobody posted
anything on the website, nobody called my parents, so the joke my
friend is on you. Nobody called, nobody wrote anything, nobody cares
that I'm dead. (silence) Oh my God! Nobody cares that I'm dead!?
Chandler: No, come on, you know that's not true.
Ross: What are you talking about? You get sixty responses just for
coming out of the closet! I didn't get one response! And I'm dead!
Chandler: Well, the gay community is a lot more vocal than the dead
community.
Ross: I can't believe this. Not even my geology lab partner? And I
carried that guy! (gets up from his sofa)
Chandler: Alright look, let's think about this, ok, do you really
think that people are gonna stir up your family at this tragic time?
That people are gonna post condolences on a website? This is not about
people not caring that you're dead .This is about people not having a
decent outlet for their grief.
Ross: You're right. There isn't a decent outlet.
Chandler: Right, I mean, come on, I'm sure that if you had a funeral
or a memorial service, tons of people would come.
Ross: Exactly!! (sits back down at his laptop and starts typing)
Chandler: Ross, what're you... what're you... what are you doing?
(looks at laptop screen)You're having a memorial service for
yourself!?
Ross: No! That would be stupid! You're having it for me!
Chandler: Ross, don't press send, don't press se... !
Ross: oh, too late, too late! It's sent... oops sorry and so is the
picture of you and the police man... 
^_^
Sebastiano/sitcomholic
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Monica could have surprised her (Phoebe) with her (Monica's) presence.
There's no verbal communication on the Intercom.
Here it is the script:
QUOTE
[Scene: Phoebe's apartment. Enter Monica]
Monica: Haha!
Phoebe: You know, it's a lot less surprising to do that after I've
buzzed you into the building.
UNQUOTE
Monica is checking that Phoebe does not have contact with the guy she
just broke up with, therefore that "haha!".
Phoebe simply answered that saying "haha" in order to scare/surpise
someone, is a lot less effective if the person you want to
scare/surprise opened the main door of the building after you have
used the buzzer to ask he/she to be buzzed in. ^_^
I see no link between this slangy meaning of 'to buzz' and 'to
surprise'.
Sebastiano
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