Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: I do.....

chattando con un'amica, ho visto che lei usa spesso l'espressione
i do remember.........e non perchč i remember
Grazie

 i do remember.........e non perchè i remember
Il 'do' è solo per parlare con enfasi. 

 i do remember.........e non perchè i remember
E' un rafforzativo.
La costruzione è "ausiliare" + "verbo alla forma base".Nota pero' che non si 
puo' fare con il verbo essere.
"Did you really lend him £200?"
"I did do it, but he said he would give the money back to me next week."
"I did take an aspirin, but I still have a terrible headache.
"Though he keeps saying he hasn't received anything yet, I did send him the 
package."
"Cold, isn't it'"
"It's cold indeed"
NOT "It does be cold"
          ^^^^^^^^
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
--
"There are only two kinds of people who really are fascinating - people who 
know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." (Oscar 
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray) 

 NOT "It does be cold"
You can also add emphasis to the reply by not contracting, and accentuating 
the verb: "It _is_ cold".
"I hope you're not going to the game in all this rain."
"I _am_ going."

grazie a tutti per le risposte, sospettavo quel significato.....
....un'altra curiosità ....con significato simile penso.....
....lei usa scrivere  .......never ever......
Grazie

 ....lei usa scrivere  .......never ever......
Hai ragione, è per l'enfasi. 

 ....lei usa scrivere  .......never ever......
Dovrebbe essere "mai più".
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"It do be cold" might be said (conversationally) by an Irishman, like
my father.
It is archaic, but still exists among the Irish, and probably in other
regional dialects.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8p153a10h.html
Joe from Massachusetts

 Dovrebbe essere "mai più".
Nope.
Bye, FB

 Nope.
No?
Allora la prossima che vedo Jonny gli do una bacchettata.
:-PP
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È un rafforzativo, spesso pronunciato enfatizzando con la voce la 
parola ever; significa "proprio mai".
PS: Ci dev'essere un problema con la tua tastiera. C'è una 
sovrabbondanza di puntini sospensivi nel tuo messaggio.
-- 
Tchau, -João do Sabão

:-PP
Eh? Cosa ho fatto di male?

 No?
"Never ever have I ever felt so low
When you gonna take me out of this black hole?
Never ever have I ever felt so sad
The way I'm feeling yeah, you got me feeling really bad"
"Never ever have I had to find
I've had to dig away to find my own peace of mind
I've Never ever had my conscience to fight
The way I'm feeling, yeah, I just don't feel right"
(All Saints, Never Ever)

 Eh? Cosa ho fatto di male?
Oooops, I hoped you'd never read this message!
:-)))))))
Anyway, I just realised that when writing that post I didn't remember quite 
well what you had told me almost 8 months ago (I checked my chat history 
:P). Indeed, you confirmed me that "never ever" meant "mai e poi mai" after 
I had written "Never and ever!" in response to your joke about me wanting to 
learn Chinese (you remember I was called by a Chinese freak who invited me 
to take a totally free six-month holiday in his country in order to learn 
his wonderful language?)
Well, even though for a mistake of mine, I made sure you still read the NG, 
although you seldom write on it.
;-)
Hope to see you soon on Skype!
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"Enrico C" ha scritto nel messaggio:
[CUT]
Yeah, sorry, my mistake.
Alas, my faulty memory!
:-)))
Thank you anyway for your kind explanation.
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