Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: How did you like it ?

Trovo scritto spesso "How did you like".
Suppongo voglia chiedere se sia piaciuto qualcosa.
Perché non scrivono semplicemente "Did you like it ?" senza l'How ?
C'e' una differenza di significato fra le due forme ?
grazie
Lapo

C'e' una differenza di significato fra le due forme ?
Secondo me (non ho mai controllato, però) "how" è un  rafforzativo.
Come dire "so gia' che ti è piaciuta questa cosa, ma quanto ?"...
Però è una mia personale interpretazione :-)
Sab

 Perché non scrivono semplicemente "Did you like it ?" senza l'How ?
Penso che stia per "quanto". Cioè, probabilmente si può dire che in
italiano una cosa piace di più o di meno, mentre in inglese una cosa piace
meglio o peggio.
Ciao, FB
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Giusto. When someone asks "How did you like it?" they assume you liked it;
they want to know what you liked about it, how much you liked it.
That question "how did you like it?" might have been preceded by "Did you
like it?" but not necessarily. 
--"I saw the movie 'The Passion of the Christ' last night."
--"How did you like it?" (It means almost "what did you think of it?" but
the assumption is you liked it.)
Because of the controversy surrounding the film, one might have asked "Did
you like it?" in which case the assumption might be that you did not like
it.
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 mentre in inglese una cosa piace meglio o peggio.
Sarà caduto il "much".
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oggi no, domani sì

 it.
that reminded me of a funny telephone company advertisement (telecom) in
which a teenager is talking on the telephone with
her boyfriend and she says with a silly facial expression:
"mi ami?" ...*pause*... "Ma quanto mi ami?"
:-)
btw... I was tempted to write "through the wire" instead of "talking on the
telephone" but I'm not sure whether that's the same or not :-)

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"Much" non è necessario, e cambia il significato un po'.
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I wonder if there is a dialectal difference here? I use "Did you like it?"
and "How did you like it?" interchangeably, and I believe most of my friends
do too. I don't perceive any difference, even of emphasis. If I want
details, I ask "What did you like about it?"
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 want details, I ask "What did you like about it?"
In my experience, one asking 'how did you like it' does not assume that the
person liked something. There is, however, a slight difference between this
phrasing and merely asking 'did you like it'. Asking 'did you like it'
encourages a 'yes' or 'no' response, while asking 'how' enourages the person
to explain more.

 to explain more.
I don't remember who was to answer the inane question of a US talk-show host:
"how do you like sex?"
"in the butt, Bob, in the butt!"

 meglio o peggio.
Io lo percepisco un po' diversamente. Per me la domanda significa 'In che
modo/come/sotto quali aspetti lo hai apprezzato?' E come sottolineava Tony,
puoi anche non averlo apprezzato affatto: non č sottinteso il gradimento.
Come ha spiegato bene Tony, 'Did you like it?' presuppone una semplice
risposta affermativa o negativa mentre 'How did you like it?' invita ad
articolare di piů la risposta.
My tuppence.
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Ciao,
Anna

Lapo wrote:
"Do you like it?" = "ti piace?"
"How do you like it?" = "che cosa te ne pare?"
sq