Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Problem of translation

      Hello,
  I'm a French student and I want to translate this sentence in
Italian:
   " Attention! This site is exclusively in French! "
Could anybody help me?
Thanks a lot!
Al-Kashi -- 
alk...@nordnet.fr

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Attenzione! Questo sito e' solamente in francese!
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I'd translate your sentence in the following ways:
 "Attenzione! Questo sito e' solo in Francese"
or
"Attenzione! Questo sito e' scritto solo in Francese" ( =This site is
written exclusively in French!")
Ciao
Michele
P.s. hey, it's one of the unusual cases I'm able to answer a question
in this NG !!  :)))))))) 

 wrote:
" >   I'm a French student and I want to translate this sentence in
" > Italian:
" > 
" >    " Attention! This site is exclusively in French! "
" > 
" > Could anybody help me?
" > 
" > Thanks a lot!
" > 
" > Al-Kashi -- 
alk...@nordnet.fr
" 
" Attenzione! Questo sito e' solamente in francese!
Ma naturalmente cio` implica che quel sito non e` *solamente* in francese,
visto che quella frase e` in italiano... :-)
ciao, .mau.
seguesu it.fan.dewdney, ovviamente :-)

written exclusively in French!")
The first sentence is good, but I don't like the second one.
If you say "written"-"scritto", you remind me of a book.
Bye Asoka xx'82
<< However fast you may run, you will never overreach the ball >>

Could anybody help me?
"Attenzione! Sono uno sciovinista autarchico!"

 >   " Attention! This site is exclusively in French! "
Well ... if you put a notice like that (in English) or "Attenzione : questo
sito e' esclusivamente in francese" (in Italian) o whatever else in whatever
other language ... than what you say is no longer true :-)
You know Richard's antinomy, or all this sort of things ("the number of the
class of all classes ..."), or Russell's barber "who shaves everybody who does
not shave by himself : who shaves the barber ?"
But perhaps (assuming that a literary quote in a foreign language does not
violate the self-reference) this would be more appropriate :
"Lasciate ogni speranza o voi ch'entrate"

    " Attention! This site is exclusively in French! "
Attenzione. Sito esclusivamente in francese.
(paradosso di Al-Kashi)
Gian Carlo
P.S. Don't forget the sentence in parentheses I added to yours.
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 ( =This site is written exclusively in French!")
Michele, va bene la grandeur, ma non e` un po' esagerato scrivere in
Francese?
Direi che in italiano basta scrivere in francese. (-:
(paradosso di magica)
Gian Carlo
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(paradosso di magica)
You're right. Sorry ;))
MIchele

   " Attention! This site is exclusively in French! "
I think you don`t need to write; people will see it`s in French.
Fry!

P.S. Don't forget the sentence in parentheses I added to yours.
     Hello!
  I sent my question for 6 other languages:
Portuguese and Norwegian: no answer :(
Japanese, Dutch and Swedish: just an insipid answer...
Italian: funny answers! you're great! ;-)
So, thanks a lot for your help!
PS: *asturias* wrote: "Sono uno sciovinista autarchico"...
What does it mean!?
(I really know NOTHING about Italian!)
Sincèrement, Al-Kashi.
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 "Attenzione! Sono uno sciovinista autarchico!"
He's joking...
"Attenzione! Questo sito e' esclusivamente in francese!"
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Mister X


That was another joke. It means "Je suis un chauvin autarcique!"
While we're on the subject, can I suggest you alter the English
slightly?
It would sound better if you put "Sorry, this site is only available in
French".
The English love an apology.
Mary
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All hope abandon, ye who [ENTER] here!

All hope abandon, ye who [ENTER] here!
Certo che in inglese Dante fa tutto un altro effetto. Mi rattrista pensare
quello che mi perdo delle sfumature di Shakespeare non essendo madrelingua.
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"Guh!"
First tagline ever.


Non ci vuole l'articolo quando si parla di una classe di cose in genere, invece
di una cosa precisa.
E.g. Si direbbe "The apologies I received yesterday" perché si parla di certe
scuse ben precise, ma "apologies are always welcome", perché qui si parla di
scuse in genere.
"English people", anche se corretto, non è bellissimo. "The English", "the
British" o "English speakers" sarebbe meglio.
Sto cercando di capire perché si usa l'articolo ("the English") in questo caso,
anche se stiamo parlando dagli inglesi in genere, mentre si direbbe "Italians
eat a lot of pizza" (non "the Italians").
Credo che l'articolo "the" trasformi l'aggettivo "English" in sostantivo
plurale, mentre "Italians" è già un sostantivo plurale (l'aggettivo essendo
"Italian").
Mary
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Apologise... It's the best way to have the last word!!

Ho un dubbio grosso come un comodino in stile rococò.
Un lecca lecca vorrei
lungo chilometri sei
va da qui a Hong Kong
che neppur King Kong
in cent'anni e piu' riesca a consumare
Un orologio a cucu'
cerco se vien dal Peru'
cerco sette oblo'
ed un como'
in stile pero' rococo'...
Are you familiar, Peltio? :-)
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching

Fruit flies like a banana."
Ma perché, scusa? "Time" e "Fruit" non sono mica plurali!
Cosa mi sfugge?
Anna
(e poi "like an arrow" e "like a banana" non sono complementi oggetto)

 Are you familiar, Peltio? :-)
If you are, stop it at once  :-)
Mary
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Antibodies: things that uncles are familiar with.

Anna Martini ha scritto:
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E' famoso appunto perché alla prima lettura, la seconda frase sembra avere un
significato diverso da quello vero. Ti sembra che le banane volino? Prova a
rileggerla, pensando alle drosofile.
Mary
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But Doc, I eat lots of fruit. I have 3 cherries in every cocktail!

"Italian").
Penso anch'io che sia così.
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Antibodies: things that uncles are familiar with.
a questa proprio non ci arrivo.  :-(
Luca
Non ho nessuna frase spiritosa come tagline.
Mi volete bene lo stesso?
I have no witty sentence to use as a tagline.
(Error 404: impossible to translate)

"Italian").
Già, perchè English potrebbe significare sia English people che English
language.
Mentre THE English significa solo il primo.
Mi chiedo se ci siano o meno altri popoli che non prendono la -s oltre a
quelli che finiscono in -sh (English, Polish,...).
saluti,
The Peltio
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Sorry, this tagline was returned to its legitimate owner.

Are you familiar, Peltio? :-)
First time ever that I've heard it.
Who is the fine artist who wrote it?
And, most importantly, has he/she recovered since he/she wrote it?
cheers,
YHS Peltio

a questa proprio non ci arrivo.  :-(
Aunt's bodies happen to be part of uncles' concern.
It took me a lot to get to it.
Time to rest.
cheers,
Peltio


The Chinese, the Japanese, the French and the Swiss come to mind; I expect there
are others too.
Mary
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All ancient Chinese artifacts should be burned, said Tom charmingly.


Auntie = zia.
Mary
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The Woman From AUNT...Solo's antithesis.

Dear Mary.
ROTFL
I remain, as always, ecc
Bambi
dtb
Mary Cassidy 
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Bambi ha scritto:
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We're showing our age with that one...!
I was beginning to think I was about the oldest contributor to this
group, but then people started talking about Joni Mitchell (ah, those
were the days), and the Everly Brothers, for heaven's sake!
Why, I bet you and Raymot even remember Lonnie Donegan...
Mary
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Hang down your head, Tom Dooley...


The Dutch, the Spanish (but there is "Spaniards"), the Portuguese, the
Irish, the Polish (but there is "Poles").
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Who is the fine artist who wrote it?
Era la canzoncina che faceva da sigla a 'Portobello', circa uno zilione di
anni fa...
Portobello
e' un mercato pazzerello
dove trovi questo e quello
e c'e' pure un pappagallo
con il becco giallo...
Sigh. Come non detto.
Isa
(bad case of unselective memory)

 : )
Pensi anca mi che 'l'e` sucès. Perche' l'Isabela la cunfunt al cifu`
cunt'al cumo`.
Gian Carlo
P.S. Chiedo scusa per il mio milanese approssimativo.
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 Chiedo scusa per il mio milanese approssimativo.
Lo sapevo. Cifun, vero? Come panetun. Come bisciun. Non me ne va bene
una.
Gian Carlo
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are others too.
Yes.
I thought of the Chinese when I answered to Luca about the PRC. But when I
wrote into this thread not even one came to my mind.
I think that's because I'm spending too much time in front of this PC.
Time to buy another one.
cheers,
Peltio
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Danish<->Dane =>Polish<->Pole

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The English love an apology.
   an apology for what? :) I'm French, so my site speak French!
I just want to inform non-French-speaking surfers of the language used
on my site. And a survey has shown that more than 80% of surfers are
English, then German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian,
Portuguese, Dutch and lastly Norwegian (that's all for the Top10!)
  However, I agree to examine your suggestion... ;)
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    an apology for what? :) I'm French, so my site speak French!
Yes, OK, what I meant was that the English love an apology even if there's
nothing to apologise for.
The definition of an Englishman is someone who apologises when you bump into
him.
"Attention", on the other hand, sounds unpleasantly military to the English
ear (like "garde-à-vous!").
Mary
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I was fired from McDonald's for short attention-span.

visto che quella frase e` in italiano... :-)
Attention, ceci n’est pas un site.
Saluti,
Magrivaldo

 Italian: funny answers! you're great! ;-)
Of course we are! :-))
If you are looking for as many translations as possible of that sentence, I
can tell you the Esperanto one: "Atentu! C^i tiu sajto estas nur en la franca".
(C^ should be a C with a ^ over it, but you can write it as "c^", or "cx" too).
G^is la revido el "Esperantujo"!
(Goodbye from "Esperanto-land"!)
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