Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Are there any english/american native speaker here?

Just out of curiosity.
Thanks.

 Thanks.
 
Mi sono scordato la s in speakers.

 Just out of curiosity.
 
There are a few, yes.

 There are a few, yes.
 
Hi, Adam. I'm glad to know we have a living English grammar here ;-)

 Hi, Adam. I'm glad to know we have a living English grammar here ;-)
 
Hardly. I see Joey and Tony are still around too.

 Hardly. I see Joey and Tony are still around too.
 
Yeah, I'm still here, mostly lurking.
It seems ICLIers are more interested in BrE than déclassé AmE. :(
 
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Joe W Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh
AmE; northeast US, Boston/New York
 

 It seems ICLIers are more interested in BrE than déclassé AmE. :(
 
Adesso ci sono anch'io e parlo (ci provo) esclusivamente American 
English! :)
 
Kiuhnm

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Questo mi fa sorridere. Bravo.
 
Dall'altra parte, stavo per dire ... no, no: inglese qui.
 
I was about to say that people who are obese are often so because of genetic 
influences, which are difficult, if not impossible, to overcome.
 
I am officially "obese," according to my [dumb] doctor, as I weigh 198 pounds 
and I'm not 8 feet tall. In fact, having attained the tender age of 
71-and-a-half, I've managed somehow to have given in to gravity and shrunk 
from 5'11" to 5'7".
 
What this means, of course, is that my BMI (Body Mass Index: stupid concept) 
has risen each year, even though my weight has remained even, since my height 
has decreased. My nonno and zii were all portly, what I think of as "sturdy 
Sicilian and Calabrese stock" and I feel quite comfortable in my accurséd 
obesity. The one time I forced myself to *dimagrire* (we need a word like 
that in English) to my "ideal" weight of 175, I felt like a mimosa leaf: that 
I could be blown away by the slightest breeze. I was terribly uncomfortable 
in my body until those blesséd 20 pounds returned.
 
Point being: one should not disparage a person due to his or her excess 
weight.
 
On the intelligence side, specifically in the case of this contestant, I 
can't help but wonder what world she lives in, where she apparently never 
reads, or never has any interest in world affairs, or even the world outside 
her (assumedly) small town.
 
(In fairness to her, the moderator mispronounces the country as "hungry" (not 
"HungAry") as if on purpose to confuse her.)
 
Curiosity doesn't only kill cats: it elevates and expands the mind and it 
stimulates more curiosity, especially for those of us who are 
"tangentialists," people who likely start at point A of wonder, and end up at 
a point much further down the alphabet, not necessarily sequencing through 
B-C-D-E, etc., but jumping maybe along an A-J-R-M-L path (e.g.) as the nodes 
direct us.
 
Yesterday I started thinking about air conditioners and in the same stream of 
consciousness I ended up Googling the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," to 
find the name of the actor who played his father.
 
So I'm not just another day older: with this recovered trivia, I'm an iota 
wiser.
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 *dimagrire* (we need a word like that in English)
 
 
 
It happens sometimes (to me) to hear/read some kind of new verb, just 
putting the "to" in front of a noun. It would be so uncorrect to create 
the verb "to slim", in this case?
 
(sorry in advance for my naivety, or any kind of mistake)
 
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ATTENZIONE: se nel msg-id si vede 
"mn..........140268@fellatio.fun.club", sono proprio Pagliotz. 
Altrimenti è un troll così coglione da volermi imitare per confondere 
gli utenti...
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 (sorry in advance for my naivety, or any kind of mistake)
 
No problem. The usual meaning of dimagrire is "to lose weight."
With "slim" the standard phrase is "to slim down": not one word.
I suppose you could say "I'm slimming," or "I need to slim," and you might be 
understood, but it isn't a common phrase.
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 understood, but it isn't a common phrase.
 
 
Thank yoy very much!
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 Yeah, I'm still here, mostly lurking.
 
 
Joseph Curtin (DYR?) wrote a few messages on 28 and 29 June,
then vanished again...
 
 
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E-S °¿°
Ho plonkato tutti quelli che postano da Google Groups!
Qui è Usenet, non è il Web!

 then vanished again...
 
I remember Joseph Curtin: he is from New York and lives in Massachusetts. I'm 
from Massachusetts and live in New York.
 
Maybe this pseudo-ping will draw him in again.
 
He and I were regular contributors a couple of decades ago.
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 He and I were regular contributors a couple of decades ago.
 
 
Maybe he is in Facebook... it's sucking everybody/everyone in
its big stomach... a black hole...
 
I have an FB account with a fictitious name... I'd like to
waste less time there... the other day a FB friend from NYC
died :-(
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I'm sorry to hear about your FB friend.
 
There are about 10 Joseph/Joe Curtins on FB but given that their search 
results are so poor, it's impossible to know if any of them is him.
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