Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Go commando

Questa espressione l'ho vista negli script di FRIENDS, Episodio 302
"The One Where No One's Ready". Ho letto su un NG che tale espressione
è stata aggiunta all'Oxford dictionary. Il signficato è "andare in
giro senza mutande".
Ecco il testo che ho letto su it.fan.tv.friends:
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Coming up for air: I felt an unstoppable urge this morning to share
this: Everybody’s favorite sitcom, now that it’s on its way out, has
been memorialized in the lofty pantheon of the Oxford English
Dictionary with the expression go commando, which means to go without
your underwear.
 
       Angus Stevenson, co-author of the latest edition of the
two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, says it’s his favorite
of the 3,500 new expressions that have entered the language through
common usage since the dictionary was last revised, in 1993.
 
       We got it from the TV series ‘Friends,’  Stevenson told
Warren Hoge, London bureau chief of The New York Times, and then we
tracked it back to American college slang in the mid-’80s, and we
reasoned that that’s when the writers of ‘Friends’ were probably at
college. It could have been a private joke in a small group about
commandos being too rough and ready to wear underpants ... It’s turned
into a phrase that is recognized by a global audience.
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Il pezzo di dialogo nell'episodio 302 dove viene usata questa
espressione è il seguente:
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Ross: Okay, now hold on. Joey, why can't you just wear the underwear
you're wearing now?
Joey: Because, um, I'm not wearing any underwear now.
Ross: Okay, then why do you have to wear underwear tonight?
Joey: It's a rented tux, Okay. I'm not gonna go commando in another
man's fatigues.
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Conoscevate questa espressione?
google "go commando" 2010
google "go commando" FRIENDS 754
google "go commando" language English 1950
dictionary.com
 niente
dictionary.cambridge.org
 niente
Ho trovato in giro:
go commando verb. To wear trousers without putting on underwear.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/gocommando.asp
By jove, even in Oxford they're going commando
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J1CD42972
Going Commando... The Bare Facts
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T1FD52972
Hague orders shadow cabinet to go commando
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T23E51972
C 2 4 C - Go Commando a ballad about underwear
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H50E12972
Sebastiano
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If we have a deja vu why don't we have a google vu?

 Ecco il testo che ho letto su it.fan.tv.friends:
Then, if you find a group of English speakers who watched this episode of
friends or who read that citation in the OED, you can use this slang without
fear of querulous stares. That is, if they remember it.


Q: Commando would seem to cover the male behavior.  Is there 
a female equivalent?

fear of querulous stares. That is, if they remember it.
Well, so it is not *that* common :). I thought it would't be common
knowledge but then I found that website with the girl from Cork asking
if she can go commando to get rid of visible panty lines and I thought
that maybe it could be. :)
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a female equivalent?
The barelegged girl from Cork we all would like to meet - well, at
least *I* would like to meet her - use it referring to herself. And
she is a woman in strappy stiletto sandals with red painted toenails,
don't y' know.
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 that maybe it could be. :)
If she's asking you might tell her that she could vanish panty lines but may
make appear butterfly wings.

make appear butterfly wings.
You got me. I have no idea about the meaning of "butterfly wings". I
have searched on google but I found out only a lot of interesting
stuff about flying insects with very colorful wings...
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 stuff about flying insects with very colorful wings...
Just use your imagination about what might become visible in 
the situation.
Thanks for the laugh Tony!
Rick

the situation.
Oh, gee, I was going to ask that to my American professor on
Wednesday. :)
Btw, now I got it. :)
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 giro senza mutande".
Given your interest in this subject, I quote below an article
published in today's Evening Standard (British daily newspaper)
QUOTE
What lies beneath? 
By Harriet Arkell, Evening Standard 
29 November 2002 
The vast majority of Scotsmen still choose to wear nothing beneath
their kilts, according to a survey out today.
The survey of men north of the border revealed that 69 per cent of
kilt-wearers prefer to "go commando".
Of the remainder, 14 per cent said they wore boxers and 10 per cent
chose briefs - with 7 per cent admitting to falling into the rather
ambiguous "other" category. One man admitted wearing a thong with a
Batman motif.
Researchers found that a large number of Scotsmen often made up their
minds on the basis of how formal the occasion was. Many preferred to
wear underwear for occasions such as weddings, while on less formal
outings such as rugby matches they went without.
The survey was carried out by The Famous Grouse for St Andrew's Day. 
UNQUOTE
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Xakero

kilt-wearers prefer to "go commando".
So it is used, afterall. Maybe it's not used a lot, but knowing its
meaning can be useful :).
Sebastiano
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