Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Aiuto per tradurre una frase

Salve a tutti!
Sto facendo alcuni volantini per la mia compagnia teatrale, e vorrei
tradurre i seguenti titoli in un BEL inglese:
Dove va a finire il mondo?
L'Africa ha fame. Noi abbiamo mangiato l'Africa.
Qualcuno può aiutarmi?
Grazie!

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Non essendoci state finora altre traduzioni, ti toccano le mie, anche se non
BEL:
Where is the World turning?
Africa is starving. We ate Africa.

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I would say "Where will the world end up?"
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Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

 I would say "Where will the world end up?"
C'e' una espressione molto comune che e': "what is the world coming to?"
che in realta' si usa al posto del nostro "dove siamo arrivati?" oppure
"dove andremo a finire?".
Percio' non so se c'entra niente in questo caso.
antonio
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I like that better: I hadn't thought of it.
"What is the world coming to?" is more common than my suggestion.
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I hadn't thought of it.
Una piccola digressione: "I hadn't thought of it" e' correttissimo, pero'
in genere si dice "I never thought of it" (almeno da queste parti)
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Sure, that works, too, but in this case what came to my mind was "I hadn't 
thought of it" because "I never though of it" implies (to me, anyway; it's a 
slight connotation) that the object of discussion was more long-term than the 
case in point.
Can I think of an example....?
(car won't start; having trouble getting it running)
-- Why don't you try adjusting the carburetor?
-- I never thought of it.
Not that it would be wrong to say "I never thought of it" in the case above.
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 thought of it" 
Scusami, non avevo capito che eri americano. Credevo di rispondere
all'amico italiano che ha iniziato il thread.
Noi italiani, compreso me che abito in Inghilterra da 8 anni ("an old
geezer" senza dubbio), tendiamo spesso inevitabilmente a parlare in
inglese conservando la costruzione dell'italiano.
In italiano diciamo "non ti avevo visto" oppure "non mi avevi detto
niente" in situazioni in cui in inglese si direbbe piu' comunemente "I
never saw you" oppure "you never told me".
Ovviamente nel caso tuo "I hadn't thought of it" corrisponde benissimo a
"non ci avevo pensato" (come anche "I never thought of it"), per cui la
mia digressione era fuori luogo.
Per curosita', in quale parte dell'America si dice "old geezer" che a me
sembra molto londinese?
Antonio, Manchester
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 Antonio, Manchester
I live in the Northeast; born in Boston, Massachusetts, and now living in New 
York City for the past 15 years.
I will confess I don't hear the word "geezer" frequently these days. I would 
have heard it the first time in Boston as a youngster.
Another thing you should know about me is that I love words; the way they 
sound, the way they fit together, and the way, in doing so, they create an 
image or enhance the meaning.
I would never call a client of mine "an old geezer" to his or her face unless 
I knew for sure they would see the humor in it.
I'm also quite irreverent, in that I often poke fun at people, but I always 
respect them in the process. That might sound like a contradiction, but it 
isn't. Having reached the ripe old age of 60-and-11-twelfths :-) I feel I 
have earned the right to use the term "geezer"!
As for "geezer" sounding londinese, it's really just a short hop from Jolly 
Old England to Boston, both historically and culturally.
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, jwd511
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verizon.net
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Still quite common in London. "Cockney Geezer" or "Proper Geezah" Real, 
authentic east (working class male) Londoner.
A true "Cockney" is a Londoner born within the sound of the bells of Bow 
Church in east London. But is now used to describe anyone from east-
London or a with distinct east-London accent!
Pip pip
-- 
Chris Notton
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 authentic east (working class male) Londoner.
Good point: a geezer is usually a man.
Never heard "geezette" for a woman, though.
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