Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Battuta film

What does Nick Naylor's
apartment look like?.
I don't know.
It's nothing impressive.
It wouldn't make
the real estate section.
A questo punto c'è una risata: me la spiegate?
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 A questo punto c'è una risata: me la spiegate?
Provo io in Italiano.
Significa che l'appartamento è uno schifo, che non vale la pena di 
chiamarlo un apartemento, immobile.
In Inglese:
It means that the apartment is lousy, that it is not worth to call it a 
real estate.


 
There is no joke. 
The apartment is a very simple and plain apartment, devoid of any
luxury, so it wouldn't be worth listing in the Real Estate
section of a newspaper.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/realestate/
http://trovocasa.corriere.it/
Joe from Massachusetts
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 Joe from Massachusetts
Thanks both of you!
  :-)
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 There is no joke.
The apartment is a joke :)


Just because a person is in dire financial straits and is forced 
to live in a humble apartment is no reason to make fun of him or 
the place he calls home. :>)
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 Joe from Massachusetts
Was Max talking about a real apartment? I thought it was a part of a 
book or so. Of course it was never my purpose to joke about somebodies 
home.

 
Nick Naylor is a fictional character from the Novel (and subsequent film) 
"Thank You for Smoking," a satire about the (non-)dangers of smoking, even 
promoting the benefits of it.
I think, given the circumstances, anything pejorative can be said about him 
or his apartment without any guilt whatsoever.
-- 
Joey from NY

 or his apartment without any guilt whatsoever.
whew.....thanks :)
My mistake was not to Google the name 'Nick Naylor'some more. One 
learns every day.

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Sorry, I was to blame, I could write the name of the movie in my first 
post...
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 post...
lol, we all want to take the blame on ourselves :).
None to blame! Nessuno da biasimare!
Mi piace di tradurre, e se possibile, fare giochi di parole, ancora un 
lungo cammino da percorrere!

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(It was never my intention to joke about someone's/somebody's home).
Poor old Nick is divorced, and has to support his wife and son, so he
doesn't have much money to spend on his apartment. In addition, he
spends a lot of money on cigarettes.
Joe from Massachusetts

 promoting the benefits of it.
They were supposed to do a TV series based on that film, but I 
guess the tobacco lobby paid someone off, and nothing ever came 
of it.
Joe, I was wondering if you had tried "RAI Replay"?
I tried it for the first time several weeks ago, and it seemed 
to be working quite well, but then for the past few weeks I have 
been getting a message that says "media failed" every time I 
click on a program. 
Now this week, I get a message saying "riconnessione al server 
in corso...", followed by a message saying "contenuto non 
disponibile", no matter what program, day, or network I select.
It could be me, but chances are RAI is experimenting, but it 
would be nice if they would tell us if they are having problems.
http://www.rai.tv/dl/replaytv/replaytv.html#
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 Joe, I was wondering if you had tried "RAI Replay"?
I haven't, Joe, but my experience with RAI is that it's fickle: sometimes 
giving me access without difficulty, but other times refusing, with the "non 
disponibile" message.
I know they've changed their interface over the last several months, and you 
could be right about the experimentation causing connection problems. I don't 
visit all that often, for that reason.
-- 
Joey from NY

 (It was never my intention to joke about someone's/somebody's home).
Thanks for pointing that out. I think I make a lot of mistakes there, 
when to write 's and when to attach the s. I know the rule but do not 
apply it well :).
A possessive noun is a noun that names who or what has something.
Add an apostrophe and s ('s) to form the possessive of most singular 
nouns.
Add an apostrophe (') to form the possessive of plural nouns that end 
with s.
Add an apostrophe and s ('s) to form the possessive of plural nouns 
that do not end with s.
all the rules here: 
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm
Something else:
Plural: Is it monkeys or monkies for monkey?
No more monkey business after this :)

Renee ha scritto:
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Just say primates, when in doubt.
Monkey, monkeys; donkey, donkeys; turkey, turkeys; turnkey, 
turnkeys; hickey, hickeys; jockey, jockeys; flunky (flunkey), 
flunkeys or flunkies; sulky, sulkies; honky, honkies; the Rocky 
Mountains, the Rockies.
If there is a rule, there is always an exception, and each word 
has to be tested first as an exception.
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 visit all that often, for that reason.
One thing I only just recently noticed about RAI is that the 
program "Porta a Porta", available on "Rai da rivedere", has 
closed captions (in Italian, of coursë), which you can turn on 
and off. Since the program is almost always about politics in 
Italy, there are many words which I don't recognize, such as 
acronyms for political parties, unions, government departments 
etc., so it's a convenience to have the closed captions. So far, 
this is the only program I have seen on "Rai da rivedere" which 
has closed captions. 
In order to differentiate between speakers when there are four 
people speaking, RAI uses white plus 3 other colors. White on a 
black background is easy to read, but the other colors are hard 
to read.
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masscurt, 18:27, sabato 10 luglio 2010:
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A Scotsman drinks a glass of whisky; an Irishman drinks a glass
of whiskey.
What if they drink more?
(I'm afraid the probable answer is "A Scotsman drinks a bottle
of whisky; an Irishman drinks a bottle of whiskey.")
I mean: ... drinks two glasses of ???
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second hand of a clock."
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):
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Booze.
-- 
Joey from NY

 Just say primates, when in doubt.
perfect! grazie.

 Joe from Massachusettso
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 hominidae (apes and humans).
sigh...I will have to write the proper words then: monkeys......:)

 I mean: ... drinks two glasses of ???
Che domanda stupida.
Chiedo scusa.
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