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Titolo: Can you translate this to english for me?

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| Can you translate this to english for me?
| 
| This is on my daughters shirt. I was wondering what it means.
| 
| A
| CUCCIA
| ADESSO!
| 
| CI
| SIAMO.
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| 

 SIAMO.
That means, more or less, "it is time". I have no idea if "it is time"
is correct in English, so let me try to explain it with an example.
You are a policeman and you are with your colleaues waiting outside
a building for a well-known thief you want to catch. The whole operation
is
going to start when he comes out of the main door. When you see him you
say "it is time" and you mean "the time to start is arrived".
Was it right "it's time"?
"Ci siamo" also means (we) are (there/here) but I do not think it could
means that in your daughters' shirt.
Are there some images? Only those two sentences?
Well, if there is only "a cuccia adesso" and "ci siamo" is quite a
nonsense. It means something but who knows why to put it on a shirt.
I remember a friend of mine with a t/shirt with a Chinese sentence on
it.
We were in a Chinese restaurant and when the owner saw the t-shirt he
start to smile (well, actually it was trying not to laugh). She asked
him why and he, after apologizing a lot (still with a big smile) he
explained that the meaning of the sentence on the t-shirt was "you are
welcome". Even here, nobody knows why should someone want a t-shirt
with written that. Nonsense.
Well, that's it. Sorry for the English mistakes :).
Hope it helps.
Sebastiano
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 Ci Siamo..There we are.
Arghhh! Mi stavo scervellando e non mi veniva in mente!!!! Curse me!
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 se cosi' fosse, sarebbe una maglietta un po' bruttina, eh? :)
Era quello che volevo dire :). Come la mia amica, fiera della sua
maglietta cinese con scritto "prego". E ho un amico che si e' tatuato
sulla schiena il proprio nome scritto in cinese. Devo far na foto della
schiena e postarla online per cercare conferme. Magari sta andando in
giro con scritto "grazie" o peggio "insert coin". Chi lo sa. :)
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 giro con scritto "grazie" o peggio "insert coin". Chi lo sa. :)
se ci fosse davvero scritto *insert coin* e si trovasse per sbaglio a 
schiena nuda in un locale gay, sarebbero cazzi amari :)))))))
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 schiena nuda in un locale gay, sarebbero cazzi amari :)))))))
Orpo. Devo controllare quel tatuaggio appena torno in Italia :).
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Thank you for your help. And let me assure you that your English is
excellent.
 Is there any way this phrase is a local saying in Italy? Perhaps it
is slang for something more than the words mean?

 is slang for something more than the words mean?
Could be. For example a guy with very long hands that are able to go
exactly where a girl does not want them to go. When one of those hands
arrive too near, she turns to watch the guy and she says "A cuccia
adesso". Then she take the rifle and she say "ci siamo".
And so she kills him.
Women!
But that is still puzzling me.
You really made me very curious :).
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 schiena nuda in un locale gay, sarebbero cazzi amari :)))))))
Non che trovarsi 'per caso' a schiena nuda in un locale gay sia una
situazione in qualche modo peggiorabile, anche da una scritta insert coin :)
Giovanni

 You really made me very curious :).
I believe that whoever wrote that text was not a native italian speaker. It
does not make any _immediate_ sense in italian, which is what you'd expect
from it. We can just do some guess work, but sure it's not crystal clear.
For example, I'm in troubles figuring out a context where the sentence "ci
siamo" would be said after "a cuccia adesso", and the scenario that Seba
drew is realistic, but the words don't fit so well in my opinion. "A
cuccia!" and "Adesso ci siamo" would be fairly more coherent, but still I
can't figure why a weapon-loaded half-naked woman would have to say that, at
least on a t-shirt where no other context is given.
Unless the key is in the woman herself. Was she a famous (fiction?)
character in Italy, the actual meaning of the sentence would surely be less
important. So let me give it a go, is she by any chance this girl:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/5834/Legs_Weaver.htm
?
Giovanni

 
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/5834/Legs_Weaver.htm
?
Did she said that? Why? It still does not fit well!
And who is she? I have never heard about this comic.
I think it is something forbidden in the U.S.. I am not able to open
the website you wrote and not event the others I found out.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/3110/
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5997/legs/index.htm
I can open the official one
http://www.ubcfumetti.com/lw/welcome.htm
Well, she is half-naked and in some picture she is even armed.
But, still, is she famous in Italy?
I am not a comic lover, so maybe it is famous, but not out of the comic
world.
Nice calendar, though. :)
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 situazione in qualche modo peggiorabile, anche da una scritta insert coin :)
Beh, c'e' sempre l'eventualita' della scritta free :).
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Shouldn'it be 'can you translate this INTO English'?
p.

 situazione in qualche modo peggiorabile, anche da una scritta insert coin :)
ROTFL :) effettivamente...
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 Orpo. Devo controllare quel tatuaggio appena torno in Italia :).
eh, si :) non vorrai mica fargli fare una brutta fine?
p.s. ma da quanto sei li' a NYC?
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 p.
Yeah, I was just wondering, too........
Cinzia
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 world. Nice calendar, though. :)
Yes, she's quite famous. 'Legs Weaver' is a spin-off from the famous comic
'Nathan Never' by Sergio Bonelli Editore, that you must have heard at least
once if you live (or used to live) in Italy. I'm not a fan myself of that
comic, but anyway I know its existence. Legs is a coworker of Nathan Never
(they are private investigators in the future, it's a scifi), and they
decided she deserved her own comic after a while. I don't think I have ever
seen a T-Shirt with Legs on, but I sure have seen Nathan Never's shirts so
there likely are also Legs' ones.
Giovanni

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It is not Legs. I have a scanner and will try to put up the entire
picture on a web page.

> Shouldn'it be 'can you translate this INTO English'?
Tutt e due vanno bene, 'translate this into English' o 'translate this to
English'.

On 29 May 2002 17:26:06 -0500, 
e_p...@hotmail.com
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e_p...@hotmail.com
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This is a picture of the girl and the saying.
Does this mean any thing as Italian slang?
http://www.geocities.com/ebooebooandthnanana/file0001_5.jpg

 
http://www.geocities.com/ebooebooandthnanana/file0001_5.jpg
No, I can confirm again it is not any slang italian idiom or anything fancy
like that. The three dots after "Ci siamo" give a slightly different
meaning. Since the girl is riding a human-horse, I'd say that "A cuccia
adesso!" is a direct order to the 'horse', like "stop running and sit down",
while "Ci siamo...", translated as "Here we are", with the meaning of "We've
arrived to our destination".
Giovanni

meaning. Since the girl is riding a human-horse....
Speaking of human horses, I remember a sentence I have seen on the frame
of a license plate: "NEVER MIND THE HORSE...I WANNA RIDE THE COWBOY!!!"
:)
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I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

 of a license plate: "NEVER MIND THE HORSE...I WANNA RIDE THE COWBOY!!!"
LOL.
What a marvelous sentence! That's would be a cool t-shirt! I think I'll
make one.
And, about parking (well, a parked car has a license plate ^_^), I
remember, here in New York, a sentence "If You Tacka My Space I breaka
You Face". Little Italy.
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Excellent; there was another one which said 
"IF YOU CAN READ THIS...BAC DA FUC UP!"
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 "IF YOU CAN READ THIS...BAC DA FUC UP!"
    My favourite is the following:
"Why did you arrive so late?"
"Oh, sorry, I was fucking busy and vice versa".
    Ciao,
            Nicola
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Multa non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus sunt
difficilia (Seneca).
[it, en, ru, es, (fr, pt, la, zh, ar)]

 [it, en, ru, es, (fr, pt, la, zh, ar)]
If the above in your signature line are the two-letter ISO country
codes (except en=English) of the countries whose languages you
translate into Italian, my hat off to you for your multifarious
language skills!
There has been much change in the geographical landscape recently and
I cannot find an up-to-date list of ISO country codes. To what country
does zh refer?
(My guess would be Zaghastan)
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Xakero

 (My guess would be Zaghastan)
... Chinese, I guess?
bye
satori

 (My guess would be Zaghastan)
    My I kindly enquire about this bizarre toponym? Is it a hilarious
creation of yours, or is it really located somewhere under the sun?
    Kindest regards,
                             Nicola
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Multa non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus sunt
difficilia (Seneca).
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language skills!
Another aside: why can't I bring myself to like that word enough to
use it? That would be "multifarious". It's a great word, and it would
surely add style to my speech and/or writing, but it rhymes with
"nefarious" and every time I see it, I think of that, and shudder. 
(OK, I guess it's time for my pill...) 
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscali.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/index.htm

                              Nicola
Hurrah!  I learnt something new today. For years I have been wondering
whether there is some sort of international standard for the
abbreviation of languages, and now I know there is.
So our semi-Japanese friend Satori guessed right, it is Chinese, the
so-called official Chinese. That you should be able even to understand
it leaves me even more awe-struck. From a game I sometimes join in
playing I only know, in one Chinese dialect, the numbers from 1 to 10
and the words for East, South, West and North. Do you happen to play
Mahjong, too?
I thought Zaghastan was one of those many new countries that are
dotting the map since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, but I
got it completely wrong: Kazakhstan is what I was thinking of. My
warped brain must have jumbled the letters to make it begin with Z and
make it fit the abbreviation zh.
(For those who now wonder what the two-letter ISO contry code of
Kazakhstan is: It is KZ. Its currency is the Tenge and the currency
code is KZT)
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Xakero
  - A Welsh friend once called me a fountain of useless knowledge.
(Just because I knew, when it mattered, what a minim was)

 refer to languages
Curious, I went to search for it and found it on
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languages.html
Kazakh is the language spoken in Kazakhstan, and its code is kk (More
useless knowledge)
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Xakero