Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Help with spelling of Italian words

Hi,
I speak no Italian, but I'm translating a short story from Japanese to
English, that is set in Italy and includes a few words in Italian.  I
was wondering if someone could help me with the English spelling of
the following words (I've guessed them, but have no idea if they're
right!):
1. Buongiorno
2. Buona sera (good night)
3. The name Giuseppe
4. The name Adaldo (or something similar) - also, is this a boy's name
or a girl's name?
5. Signor, Signorina
6. The word for 'wolf' (something like lupo or rupo)
Thank you very much

 Thank you very much
you can see the pronunciation of the others words on 
www.wordreference.com

 help me with the English spelling
If it's only the SPELLING that you need, you mostly got it right:
1. Buongiorno (good morning)
2. Buona sera (good evening)
3. Giuseppe
4. Aldo - a boy's name, not very common
5. Signor, Signorina (Mr., Miss)
6. wolf = lupo (lupa if it's a female)
HTH
--
Gnomo
...any way the wind blows...

Thank you very much
I hope this helps. I was thinking about the American pronunciation of
the words.
Sebastiano
-- 
Aisle bee ware yew wont mi two b;
Isle b yore ayes;
Aisle pleas u;
Yew no u knead mi, deer.

 You want to know how to say those words?
She asked for the spelling. Presumably because in the Japanese
original the words were written in katakana. It can be quite
hard trying to work out where a katakana spelling comes from.
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hard trying to work out where a katakana spelling comes from.
I guess.
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 I guess.
I don't necessarily recognise English words written
in katakana. If the katakana were a language I didn't
know I'd be in trouble.
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 tend to separate the g and the n (g as in goat, n as in no).
The ñ sound is in "onion"

Scríobh Zz:
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"OGNion"??

know I'd be in trouble.
Well, I would not even recognize my own name written in katakana, nor
I would able to understand hiragana or kanji. :)
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The ń sound is in "onion"
In which language, my friend?
In the English word 'onion' the segment 'ni' sounds /nj/. I guess that
this could be considered similar to the sound of the Spanish eńe but
it is not *the same*. Go to 
www.m-w.com
 and download the wav file for
onion, you'll notice that there is a difference between the two
sounds. But yes, I agree, they can be considered *similar*, and I
could have used that.
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I would able to understand hiragana or kanji. :)
Learning to read katakana is somewhat useful even if you have no
intention of learning Japanese. You might be surprised to see how much
stuff on Japanese menus is _really_ English written in katakana.
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
Verbing weirds language. (Calvin)

stuff on Japanese menus is _really_ English written in katakana.
I might, one day, try to learn katakana. Now I am hardly coping with
English, Spanish, Arabic and, when I have time, a li'l Croatian,
Chinese and Norwegian. Anyway, you can probably measure that li'l in
ångströms, since I only know bits of the last three languages.
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 ångströms, since I only know bits of the last three languages.
katakana isn't like learning a language, it's just an alphabet
You should probably learn Tengwar at some point as well. 
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You should probably learn Tengwar at some point as well. 
I tried once. It's really beautiful. Well, I'll try it again. :)
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 or a girl's name?
It could be "Arnaldo", a boy's name.

It was only an approximation.
Your version could be the basis of a comedy sketch!
Attempting to explain the sounds of a foreign language (in writing), using
the sounds from another foreign language (in writing) as illustrations...
or did Monty Python beat you to it?
:)
Zz
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You should probably learn Tengwar at some point as well. 
Or Dwarvish :)
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 boy's name or a girl's name?
Clearly a boy's name: names ending in "-o" are masculine, apart a few very
rare exceptions (Such as Cleo).
But I never heard "Adaldo" as a person's name. An existing boy's name is
"Arnaldo" (= "Arnold").
Letters "da" and "na" look very similar in hiragana but, AFAIK, a foreign
name is supposed to be spelled in katakana, where "da" and "na" are quite
different, so a misspelling or misreading seems an odd possibility. But I
read somewhere that, in contemporary informal Japanese, hiragana is
sometimes used also for foreign terms or names, is this the case?
Ciao.
Marco
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sometimes used also for foreign terms or names, is this the case?
I do not know in your case, but as you can see here:
http://www.hitvibe.co.jp/kiroro/
in the top right corner, "news" it's written as "nyuusu" using
hiragana, so what you say is right - at least in this example (see my
italian post in iclg:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=32446244.0310110410.62f5cc0e%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26q%3Dziobit%2Bnews%2Bkiroro
)
L8r
ZioBit

 rare exceptions (Such as Cleo).
And that's a short form for Cleopatra. 
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on the up and up: is honest and can be trusted