Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: worth

hi everybody!
could anyone explain to me what does "worth" mean in the sentence below 
please? which is the most correct translation into italian? I've just read 
it on uk.rec.gardening, they're talking about morning glory seeds.
thank you.
Claudia 

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mmh, I forgot the sentence...
here it is:
"You can only try it and see, you've nothing to lose except a bit of time 
and
50p worth of compost!"

 and 50p worth of compost!"
"Worth" in this context means monetary value. All you may lose is an amount 
of compost that has a monetary value of fifty cents. 

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Non hai niente da perdere eccetto un po' di tempo ed il valore di 50p
(50 pence?) di compost  (non so come si dice compost in italiano)
bye
ari

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"Non puoi che provarlo e stare a vedere. Non hai niente da perdere fuorché
un po' di tempo e 50 sterline di composta/terricciato!" ("terricciato per
un valore di 50 sterline").
Ciao, FB
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 (50 pence?) di compost  (non so come si dice compost in italiano)
Uhm, considering what compost is, 50 pence seems to make more sense.
Bye, FB
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grazie... dunque è valore. molto gentili!
"compost" è "composto", è un composto di diverse tipologie di terriccio per 
piantare i fiori o le piante.
Cla. 

 un valore di 50 sterline").
p non è pence?
e P pounds?
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Si' so che cosa e', ma non spevo il termine in italiano.  
bye
ari

 e P pounds?
50p = 50 pence
£50 = 50 pounds
-- 
Mary

 Ł50 = 50 pounds
On second thoughts, Ł50 worth of compost is one big heap of...
By the way, is "one X" meaning "some X" ("a remarkable X"; e.g. "some
chicken, some neck") relatively recent? especially American? I remember
hearing it a lot in "Sex and the City".
And speaking of "Sex and the City", might I have heard "that a show"
meaning "such a show"? I may not recall correctly, or may well have
misheard at the time. I might even have isolated the expression: supposing
the sentence was "I think that a show is what we need", it would have just
meant what it means, while, for some reason, I would have taken "that a
show" as a whole with the meaning "such a show", "a show like that"). At
all events, I'd like to know whether such an expression exists.
Bye, FB
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scrivere libri non fa per lei. Per il suo bene (e il nostro,
soprattutto)."
(Recensione di Antonio D'Orrico sul Corriere della Sera Magazine)

 all events, I'd like to know whether such an expression exists.
I think that a show is what we need. The expression isn't 'that a show' but 
rather 'a show is what' we need (you want).

 rather 'a show is what' we need (you want).
I totally made up the sentence; anyway, you clearly don't know such an
expression. Thanks.
Bye, FB
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ma ora che Maggiolini ha ricordato che Babbo Natale e la Befana non
esistono, anche il papa - sant'uomo - non poteva evitare di riesumare il
camauro tre giorni prima del 25?!? (*)
E ora come li convinco, i miei figli, che Maggiolini ha ragione?
(tharmas su it.cultura.religioni.cristiani)

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Io direi:
Non puoi che provarlo e stare a vedere, non hai niente da perdere fuorché
un po' di tempo e 50 pence di terriccio.

 Bye, FB
Sorry, you lost me here.  More sense than what?  What's the other
possibility for "p"?
ari

 expression. Thanks.
No, unless I misunderstand you, it's not an expression. If the expression
you heard was 'that-a-show', in the sense of 'that-a-way' or 'that-a-boy',
it is not an expression but the meaning could be painfully construed in the
right context if the pronunciation mimicked the above stated familiar
expressions. The proposed expression would not work, however, in the
invented sentence of your example. In any case, your sentence does make 
perfect sense as written and read as 'a show is what'.

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For some reason, I wrote "sterline".
Bye, FB
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