Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Errore nell'articolo?

Nell'ultimo numero dell'Economist ho trovato un punto di un articolo in cui 
mi sembra che manchi un pronome per dare senso alla frase. Vi copio anche le 
righe precedenti, giusto per darvi un'idea del contesto.
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Abbé Pierre
Feb 1st 2007
TRADITIONALLY most saints are gentle creatures. Those enshrined in French 
homes, or on prayer-cards stuffed into the missals of elderly churchgoers, 
are usually St Anthony carrying the child Jesus, or smiling St Thérèse of 
Lisieux with a bouquet of flesh-tinted roses. Odd, then, that the nearest 
modern France has come to a saint was a man fuelled and driven by unceasing 
anger: anger that the poor should suffer and that the rich did not care.
(per chi volesse continuare: 
http://snipurl.com/19i3h
)
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Nell'ultimo periodo fra "saint" e "was" non ci va qualcos'altro?
Grazie.
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
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 not care.
sì, sembrerebbe un who...
Cla 

> Nell'ultimo periodo fra "saint" e "was" non ci va qualcos'altro?
Nope!
"the nearest...
([that] modern France has come to a saint)... 
...was a man fuelled and driven by unceasing anger".
Ovvero, la cosa più simile a un santo uscita dalla Francia moderna è stato
un uomo ecc. 

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Va bene, imho.
With a "who" where you suggest, the sentence makes no sense, unless you add
another verb at the end of the phrase. Even then, ädding the "who" suggests
that the man is already a saint, which he is not.
Joe from Massachusetts

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I agree.
If a "who" is inserted, there is no longer a verb associated with the
initial phrase, the original "was" having been appropriated by the added
"who", resulting in an incomplete sentence which makes no sense.
Joe from Massachusetts


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Whatever happened to Don Mario Borrelli of Naples, who did equally
noteworthy work with the "scugnizzi" in Naples?
Joe from Massachusetts

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He did his best work around the time that Don Camillo was doing his part for
Italy, but I don't think the two ever met.  :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

>
I'm the least reliable person to answer your question about this fellow I
know of half as much as Licciarda Consigli
Nevertheless here is the brilliant result of my googling:
http://www.ilpungolo.com/leggi-tutto.asp?IDS=6&NWS=NWS4434
:) greetings 2u

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So he's still alive and living in Oxford, and no longer a priest. Isn''t it
unusual for a priest to "revert to the lay state"?
This article mentions Morris West's book, "Children of the Sun", saying that
Eleanor Roosevelt read it in the White House, but the book wasn't published
until 1957, twelve years after she left the White House.
Joe from Massachusetts

 until 1957, twelve years after she left the White House.
A juggler's trick!
arivederse
dd

 that the man is already a saint, which he is not.
sě.. l'avevo letta proprio con l'intonazione sbagliata/non capendo un 
accidenti!
Cla. 

 un uomo ecc.
Aaah. Io pero' il santo lo volevo vicino a nearest... va be', non si potra' 
avere tutto, vero?
:-)
Grazie mille!
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Dicaduca,
I read on page 42 of "Il Mattino" of Feb. 14th that Don Mario Borelli has
died in England. It is strange that this is the only place I have read
anything about his death. I wonder if anyone knows anything else about this?
http://ilmattino.caltanet.it/mattino/view.php?data=20070214&ediz=NAZIONALE&npag=42&file=14HS8.xml&type=STANDARD
Joe from Massachusetts

 anything about his death.
Hi Joe,
it's only now I have read this post of yours, sorry.
As you know, Il Mattino is Naples local paper, so no wonder if the news was
reported there. This don Mario was likely to be known only in restricted
circles dealing with church stuff. The rest of Italy is too worried by
soccer rows, political instability, the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the
next Festival di Sanremo to mind about the death of an uneasy
priest...moreover dead abroad. Rip.
Saluti
dd

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The Times seems to be the only English-language newspaper which carried an
obituary, albeit a week late.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1414996.ece
Joe from Massachusetts

 obituary, albeit a week late.
 But an exhaustive one!
My only comment is 'Nemo propheta in patria', so rounds the world.
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