Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Traduzione di termine italiano

Salve a tutti,
qual'è l'equivalente inglese di "furbone" o "furbacchione"?
Ho trovato "old fox" ma sembra più un sinonimo dell'italiano
"vecchia volpe" che non ha la stessa valenza lievemente 
dispregiativa dei termini precedenti.
Grazie a chi risponderà.
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 dispregiativa dei termini precedenti.
Sneaky? 

sneaky old devil, sly old devil, devious (something)

 dispregiativa dei termini precedenti.
dodger?
-- 
I'm a Dream!!! 

> qual'è l'equivalente inglese di "furbone" o "furbacchione"?
wangler?
Moska
PS: This is my first post. Bye to everyone. 

 wrote in message 
news:dg6f58$iti$1...@newsreader.mailgate.org...
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Sorry you couldn't stay longer !
Mike 

 Mike
"You Say Hello, I Say Goodbye" ;)
-- 
Enrico C
...still legal tender...

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This is the objection I always get when I use "Bye, FB" on
alt.usage.english. However, I haven't yet understood whether I should only
write "FB", which I wouldn't like to, or I should write something else.
Bye, FB
-- 
"Qualcuno, meglio se un poliziotto, dovrebbe comunicare a Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx che scrivere noir non fa per lui. Per il suo bene (e il
nostro, soprattutto)."
(Recensione di Antonio D'Orrico sul Corriere della Sera Magazine)

 write "FB", which I wouldn't like to, or I should write something else.
Hi? 

 Hi?
At the bottom of a post?
Definitely not.
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"Murderess." "Primitive totalitarian." "Three times over - for what 
right has /she/ to say that /we/ can’t exist [...]. Crypto-criminal 
mind!" 

 At the bottom of a post?
No, instead of the "bye" in "bye to everyone".
He was introducing himself, I guess. 

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No. At the bottom of my posts I write "Bye, FB", and it often happens that
someone replies "Oh, you're going" or something along those lines.
Bye, FB
-- 
No point in crying over spilt husband.
(The Cheap Detective)

 write "FB", which I wouldn't like to
Why not? That's what most native speakers do.
-- 
Mary

 someone replies "Oh, you're going" or something along those lines.
Yes, I understand.
I was talking about the other "bye". Evene though it was at the end of the 
post, he was using it as an introduction of himself.
Cheers
Fabio 

 post, he was using it as an introduction of himself.
But you can't do that in English. "Bye" means "addio/arrivederci"; "hi"
is OK as a greeting, but it would have to go at the beginning of the
post.
-- 
Mary

 on it.cultura.linguistica.inglese :
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Being Italian, he could write "Ciao, FB" ;)
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 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:43287317...@spamfinito.it...
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I know, but I think that his P.S. was a late greeting.
Ciao
Fabio 

 Being Italian, he could write "Ciao, FB" ;)
He doesn't necessarily have to say "bye" everytime he leaves messages in a 
thread.
And replacing it with "Ciao" would be quite the same :) 

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I write "Ciao, FB" on Italian ngs all the time. What's the difference?
Bye, FB
-- 
Una volta ho comprato un salmone all'Ikea.
Sono arrivato a casa.
Era da montare.
(citato da Alessandro "Il Patriarca" Valli su
it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

 I write "Ciao, FB" on Italian ngs all the time. What's the difference?
there's none.
It's like saying "Ciao" every time you finish a sentence in a conversation. 

"Francesco.b"  ha scritto nel messaggio
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Quella si chiama buona educazione.
:-))))
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
--
"A good idea is a good idea forever" (The Office).
[My Skype nickname: enrico_il_pentolaio ] 

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I find 'bye' at the end of a post rather odd, although I know some make a 
habit of it. I can't think of one time I've seen it as a signature in either 
a personal or business letter. The feeling that I get when I read it in 
English is of a cold abruptness.
Go away,

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So, either something like "truly yours" (not on ngs, I would think) or just
my name?
Bye, FB
-- 
"While I'm here, might I make a few changes? I adore my bedroom, but do you
think I could have my curtains washed? I believe they're red, but I should
like to make sure."
(Cold Comfort Farm, the film)

 just my name?
You could end a post to a newsgroup with just your name, but it is customary
to close a letter with a word or short phrase before the signature. You
could end a letter with 'Yours truly' or 'Very truly yours' because they are
accepted complimentary closings. This habit, I expect, goes back to the
habit of some centuries back of closing letters with ingratiating phrases
like 'Your humble servant'.
My personal preference is to use something descriptive of my actual
relationship with the recipient or my general attitude toward them. For a
general impersonal closing I would use 'Best wishes' or 'Warm regards'. I
would allow myself to use 'Yours truly' in a letter to someone with whom I
have an intimate personal relationship where there would be a tendency to
exchange such subtle implications of emotional ownership except for the fact
that its accepted general usage would make it seem insincere and impersonal.
As I think about it, it's probably best if I stop here because I would be
advising you on my own personal habits in this regard rather than those of
the mainstream which I only observe from a safe distance.

 Sorry you couldn't stay longer !
is this a close circle?
;-)
Moska