Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: guilt slinger

Buongiorno amici carissimi,
Una mia amica americana michiede come si dice "guilt slinger "in Italiano.
Visto che prima di adesso non avevo mai sentito l'espressione e visto che
non saprei tradurre nemmeno la lista della spesa chiedo a voi .
Yours
Sal

 Una mia amica americana michiede come si dice "guilt slinger "in Italiano.
Io non l'ho mai sentito, ma mi viene in mente uno che "lancia colpevolezze",
sempre pronto ad accusare tutto e tutti. Uno "spara sentenze". Ma è solo
una supposizione senza contesto.
Sono curioso di sapere che significa esattamente.
Sebastiano

non saprei tradurre nemmeno la lista della
spesa chiedo a >voi.
Esteemed Slang Master,
I can’t give you the
Italian translation, but "guilt slinger" is obviously a variation of "mud
slinger".
A mud slinger talks badly about another person, usually a
polititian about his opponent during an election campaign.
QUOTE:
to
sling mud at (fig.) lanciare fango su
UNQUOTE
Source: Hazon Garzanti
QUOTE
Amanda Wingfield, the mother, is played by Meg Dinsmore. This is a
difficult role to play because this character is a compulsive talker and
guilt slinger. Dinsmore adeptly pulls this off. She is obsessive and
domineering to the point that it becomes comical. "Why, youre as eloquent
as an oyster!" Amanda says to her son Tom, a poet. Theres a lot of funny
lines, but it soon becomes apparent that humor and denial are intertwined.
UNQUOTE
Source: 
http://vax.wcsu.edu/echo/o_1798/n_1798i.html
Hence, a
guilt slinger is someone who talks to another person in such manner as to
make that person feel guilty about his/her behaviour.
Whether in the
Italian idiom "lanciare fango su" you can simply substitute "fango" with
"colpa", I do not know (but I doubt it).
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 guilt slinger.
Hey, the same site I found on google. Well, it is the only one with "guilt
slinger" :).
Thanks for the explanation.
Sebastiano

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:aec73h$5ogng$1...@ID-33279.news.dfncis.de...
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Ehehehe io pensavo fosse un cocktail americano :))
Giovanni

Thanks for the explanation.
"guilt slinger" does indeed
seem to be a rarely used neologism. 
www.elibrary.com
 did not give me a
single hit.
Obviously, its search does not include "The Echo", a student
newspaper of the Western Connecticut State University. It would seem
reasonable to suspect that "guilt slinger" is, at the moment, used only
regionally and/or by a certain social group.
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 Ehehehe io pensavo fosse un cocktail americano :))
Magari lo č. Lo Sling č un cocktail, che non so come si chiami in italiano.
Praticamente hai fatto una cosa cattiva, ti senti male, bevi un Guilt
Slinger e
i peccati vengono lanciati via. E sei felice e ubriaco.
Devo brevettarlo... ;)
Sebastiano

 regionally and/or by a certain social group.
< My friend lives in Vermont and is a middle class 58 years young
grandmother.
    Now I understand what it means and I realize I should have guessed
myself.
But is there a similar idiom in Italian ?
Yours
Sal

pappa...@libero.it
 scrive:
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Dear Sal,
non credo esista un equivalente in italiano (AFAIK). Credo si debba usare
il buon vecchio 'far sentire in colpa'.
'Nome' č uno che ama far sentire in colpa...
Cose cosě.
Ciao
CC


  The joke should have been :
A 58 year-young grandmother.
Sorry
Sal