Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Pissed off: che vuol dire!?

"I was really pissed off".
Dal contesto in cui me lo hanno detto, mi sembra volesse dire: "Mi ero veramente
rotto le palle" o qualcosa del genere. Giusto?!
Luca

Dear Luca
You are correct in your understanding.  In American English 'to be
pissed off' refers to anger, irritation.
In British English ' to be pissed' , means the person was drunk.
I remain, ecc
Bambi
dtb
Luca Zanin ha scritto nel messaggio
+ADw-372c4839.410565+
AEA-news.flashnet.it
+AD4-...
:+ACI-I was really pissed off+ACI-.
:Dal contesto in cui me lo hanno detto, mi sembra volesse dire: +ACI-Mi
ero veramente
:rotto le palle+ACI- o qualcosa del genere. Giusto?+ACE-
:
:Luca

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"to be pissed off" significa "to be annoyed, irritated, angry" of or by
someone
or something.
Questo e' il termine in Gran Bretagna e Australia. In America si dice
semplice
"to be pissed" - "Man, I was really pissed".
Purtroppo, "to be pissed" in GB/Aus significa "to be drunk" - ubriaco,
ebbro.
Cosi` talvolta c'e` frainteso anche tra madrelingue inglese.
"pissed off" e` un termine volgare. Si puo` dire "cheesed off" o "browned
off"
davanti alle zie per significa la stessa cosa.
Raymot
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 davanti alle zie per significa la stessa cosa.
  significare
  ma sarebbe meglio usare semplicemente
  dire
  Saluti
  Gigi
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I've discovered that you can't send a "wav" sound file to this newsgroup.
So, if you go to
http://www.thehellhole.com/sounds/index.html
and choose "Episode 218" and download the soundfile:
218_THUMB1.WAV
you will find an Australian character from the popular American comedy cartoon
show "South Park" using term "pissed off" several times. (Actually, I just tried
it and can't seem to download the file again, I hope it is just a temporary
problem.)
Do you get "South Park?" At times it is very funny if you have an irreverant
sense of humor and an appreciation of the absurd.
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 or something.
io direi che "to be pissed off" e' equivalente alla espressione italiana
"essere incazzato".  Perfino le parti del corpo corrispondono. Ciao arianna
PS:  ma dov' e' il post originale di Luca?  qui su dejanews non esiste.
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PS:  ma dov' e' il post originale di Luca?  qui su dejanews non esiste.
Is dejanews part of AOL? If it is, then that may be your problem.
Whenever I work with someone who has an AOL account all electronic communication
becomes unreliable. For email I suggest to them that they set up a Yahoo account
or get another ISP because AOL consistently trashes attachments. Their
proprietary network appears to be the problem. So far I've gotten several people
to drop their AOL accounts to their utlimate satisfaction. We are then able to
resume exchanging files without incident.
What is the point of sticking to this provider when there are so many other
better alternatives?
Ciao,
Ron


Ron, I wrote you and answer twice and it got lost each time.  the first time
I don't know what happened, the second time it got lost while I was doing a
spell check.  AOL is not the problem.  Dejanews is the problem.  you should
try it sometimes, if you feel like being a masochist sometimes.  Some of the
posts  lately have had no content, only the tilte,  date (1970/01/01), the
author and nothing else.  It's driving me crazy.  I have spent hours (at
least 45 minutes only tonight) on posts that never made it to the NG. I am
very happy with aol.  I have never experienced any of the problems people
cpomplain about.  Moreover, the price is right ($20 a month for unlimited
usage). However, I will take your suggestion into consideration. bye Arianna
PS sorry about the off topic message, but I did write it in
English.......that's better than nothing
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Luca
Io direi:
Ero proprio incazzato nero
Ma e' personalissima interpretazione
Ciao
Birba
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"Pissed off" vuol dire esattamente quello che hai scritto. In Inghilterra è
importante aggiungiere "off" perché "pissed" da solo vuol dire "ubriaco" come
nell'espressione "pissed as a newt", mentre in America sia "pissed" che "pissed off"
vogliono dire "scocciato, di cattivo umore, stufo, ecc."
Questo fatto può causare degli equivoci come fanno altre parole che cambiano
significato attraversando l'Atlantico (fag, rubber). Un mio collega un giorno ha
creduto per un po' di tempo che un certo professore era venuto al lavoro ubriaco,
mentre era solo di pessimo umore: "Mario's really pissed today" (inglese americano)
ciao
Chris
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Having just had occasion to reply to Er Roscio, it should be noted also that ' to be pissed' (drunk) and ' to be pissed off at someone/something ' (angry/irritated) should not be confused with ' to take the piss out of someone/something.'
The latter meaning to make fun of someone/something.
I remain, ecc
Bambi
dtb
Christopher John Pain ha scritto nel messaggio 
:Luca Zanin wrote:
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