Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Bummer nel contesto

Salve amici .
Il server tedesco di cui mi servivo è diventato a pagamento e spedire
messaggi attraverso google è troppo macchinoso .
Colgo l'occasione per comunicarvi tutto la mia stima e per sottoporvi
un quesito di traduzione .
Come tradurreste la parola Bummer nel contesto di questa storiella :
There is a picture of two deer talking in the forest.  One deer has a
birthmark that looks like a bull's eye on his chest.  The other looks
at it and says, "Bummer."
TIA
Yours
Sal

 at it and says, "Bummer."
Che peccato! 

 at it and says, "Bummer."
Per me significa semplicemente "che sfiga!"
-- 
Mary

 ha scritto:
.
Per me significa che sfiga.
Mary
Quello che sostenevo anche io .
Sal
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 Il server tedesco di cui mi servivo è diventato a pagamento
Bummer!
Ari

 Bummer!
Dieci euro l'anno. Poco meno di 3 centesimi al giorno.
Ho pagato. Forse non rinnoverò l'abbonamento tra un anno, dipende, ma
intanto 10 euro li ho sganciati, come un grande "grazie" per tutto il tempo
gratuito e tutte le volte che ho perso la password (la loro non mi voleva,
e non mi vuole, entrare in testa, e non si può cambiarla). :)
Sebastiano

 Ho pagato.
Me too. It's really cheap!
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"Sick of this life, not that you'd care, I'm not the only one with whom 
these feelings I share" 

 e non mi vuole, entrare in testa, e non si può cambiarla). :)
I would have paid gladly, but I happen not to need it. 
Bye, FB
-- 
"May I come with you to the station?"
"Please, do. I like to go off in style."
(Cold Comfort Farm, the film)

 I would have paid gladly, but I happen not to need it. 
You have already told me that. :)
Sebastiano

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I know, but I can't help but wonder why so many people have paid, while I
didn't need to.
Bye, FB
-- 
"Something to take to the country." (holding out a bunch of flowers)
"Flowers come _from_ the country, Charles."
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 while I didn't need to.
Because it was a good service when it was free, so I found it proper to 
give them some money, mainly to "thank" them.
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"Why can't I stay?"

 give them some money, mainly to "thank" them.
They didn't work for free, did they? I mean, somebody must have paid them.
Whoever they are, by the way. (smiling face)
Bye, FB
-- 
"May I come with you to the station?"
"Please, do. I like to go off in style."
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 them. Whoever they are, by the way. (smiling face)
Of course, but I like things that work! So paying (a very little bit) 
won't hurt me!
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"You were the Chosen One!" 

 didn't need to.
Probably because it's by far the most reliable news server.
I tried out various Italian news servers when I first started using
usenet, and I found them all very unreliable. Tin.it certainly used to
have a lot of problems at one time.
I'm now using a different free one, mainly because I'm a bit paranoid
about using my credit card on the Internet, but if I find it's
unreliable, I'll pay to register with the German one myself.
-- 
Mary

 Whoever they are, by the way. (smiling face)
The Free University of Berlin.
I assumed it was State subsidised, but presumably not.
-- 
Mary

 won't hurt me!
I, too, work, for that matter. Should you feel like paying someone else...
Bye, FB
-- 
If you knock on my door and I call out "Who is it?", you, as a normal
person, knowing that I would recognize your voice, would say "It's me". If
you said "It is I", I would not be nearly so inclined to let you in.
(Geoffrey K. Pullum - 
http://snipurl.com/bhtu
)

 didn't need to.
You wonder why so many people paid something you don't need? :)
Anyway, I have already told you why I paid. I started using it when I was
using a dial-up connection and not having a flat rate I used different
POPs. Using the news server X when connected to the POP Y was not possible
(and vice versa). The server 
news.cis.dfn.de
 was free and you IP didn't
matter. Now I have a broadband connection and I could use the news server
news.tin.it
 - IIRC that should be it - but why bother? Then it happened.
News.individual.net
 - they transferred all the accounts from
news.cis.dfn.de
, now free of charge only for members of the DFN group, to
news.individual.net
 - is not free anymore. I don't *need* it, but I don't
like 
news.tin.it
 (I have been told it's quite slow), and I thought "what
the hell, they've done a great job for years, they deserve it!". And I
paid. I don't know if I'll renew the subscription, but I felt like paying
for one year. Call it a ten euro tip. Some people tip the mailman, I gave
money to "the guys behind the news server". What a geek!
Sebastiano

 else...
Sorry, you're not a *thing* :-)
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!" 

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Did you ever check out that server I recommended when you were asking?

 Did you ever check out that server I recommended when you were asking?
Yes, but it stopped working after a couple of days, and anyway it was
read-only.
-- 
Mary

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I've checked my account (that I don't use). Apparently the server
address given when signing up was "
beta.readfreenews.net
" this now
needs to be changed to "
news.readfreenews.net
". Messages for this
group as an example go back to October last year. It does allow
posting as well, I'm posting through it now. Of course if you're happy
with what you have... but it's worth keeping in mind as a backup at
least.

 least.
I will, thanks.
-- 
Mary