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

I've found a nice site where I could download freely some E-books of jokes.
They seem easy and funny also for my low level of comprehension and I think it
could be useful for other who wants to improve their English without read books
very heavy and long, but reading only a couple of simple jokes.
This is the link:
http://www.jokeaday.com/7ebooks.shtml
Now, I hope that You'll correct all my mistakes in this post.
Thanks!  

 very heavy and long, but reading only a couple of simple jokes.
"that are [very] heavy and long"
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Still on a temp account, but got the DSL back.

Thanks!  
Well done.

I have two doubt too:
1) Is "Little Johnny" famous as our "pierino" in jokes?
2) I saw in a joke this question:  "What you got there?"
I would have written: "What did you get there"
Ciao.

 Well done.
Thanks again to everyone!

 mistake very stupid... :-(
Argh!!! 
"...some very stupid mistakes"!!
Mi sono corretto da solo, buon segno! :-)

 I had thought that "can" was wrong...
Sei piů nit-picker di me. (faccina sorridente) Se in italiano dici "posso",
scrivi "can", se dici "potrei", dici "could".
Ciao, FB
-- 
"What meaning of this, Mitter Twain?". "I will tell you, Mr Wang, if you
can tell me why a man who possesses one of the most brilliant minds of this
century can't say his prepositions or articles".
(Murder by Death)

I would have written: "What did you get there"
This is a different meaning "what did you get there" (when you went
there).... wherever "where" may be, shops perhaps.

Spero di aver reso bene qualcosa come: "Ma certo che lo sapevo!"
"I didn't know that!" ..is better
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infatti, aggettivo (very stupid) di prima. Sempre in inglese.
exuse my Italian.

 "I didn't know that!" ..is better
It's quite the opposite, isn't it?
I did know it ==> Of course I knew it ==> Certo che lo sapevo
I didn't know it ==> Non lo sapevo
Bye, FB
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"Gli americani sono ignoranti per loro stessa natura",
that is "The Americans are naturally ignorant"
(Paolo Bonardi's opinion on it.cultura.linguistica -
http://snipurl.com/7ryg
)

 2) I saw in a joke this question:  "What you got there?"
It's slang for "What have you got there?"
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 joke person"
He does, it's the British Pierino.
-- 
Mary

It's quite the opposite, isn't it?
Yes you're right, I read it wrong. I thought he'd just learnt
something knew.

"I didn't know that!" ..is better
Sorry.. 
"I knew that!" ..is better :)

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Perhaps one is more likely to say "I did know it" when somebody has just
denied or  that he does:
- But, of course, you didn't know it...
- I did know it!
Or to mean "Actually I knew it"; in Italian we'd say "Certo che lo sapevo",
or "(E) lo sapevo, sě". 
Right? Left? (it's not fun, I know)
Ciao, FB
-- 
Conversation like television set on honeymoon: unnecessary.
(Murder by Death)

 Perhaps one is more likely to say "I did know it" when somebody has just denied that one does *:
* A little formal, isn't it? I hope it's correct, at least.
Bye, FB
-- 
L'importante è che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
(Lucangel su it.cultura.libri)

Right? Left? (it's not fun, I know)
I seem to keep on taking the wrong direction as of late.

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Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant hear in the US.
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:38:15 +0200, Mary Cassidy wrote:
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No I didn't. I meant "here" in the US. Oy vay. :)
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 scrivi "can", se dici "potrei", dici "could".
Credo di aver letto da qualche parte che "could" possa essere usato in luogo di
"can" per essere più cortese(ma forse è nelle richieste).
Ovvio che questo non giustifica la mia figuraccia con "can" :-)
Ciao.
 

 I have two doubt too:
Me imbecille(nel senso che imbello), ovviamente:  "doubts, doubts, doubts,
doubts"!

 espressionipiùadatte"  :-)
LOL!
No, vuole solo dire che ti sei mostrato fin troppo attento alle minuzie, uno
che cerca il pelo nell'uovo :-)
-- 
Maria Luisa C - 01/10/2004 13.17.10

 Me imbecille(nel senso che imbello)
che cosa vuol dire imbello? mai sentito.
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Maria Luisa C - 01/10/2004 13.22.43

 che cerca il pelo nell'uovo :-)
E' incredibile come basti un trattino per autodistruggersi: se diceva nitpicker
lo capivo! :-) (ne abbiamo anche già parlato sul ng)
Ciao.

 che cosa vuol dire imbello? mai sentito.
Non hai mai visto Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo? :-))
Aldo usa spesso dire: "Sono imbecille nel senso che imbello!", non significa
assolutamente niente :-)

_Max_, venerdě 01/ott/2004:
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Oops: si capisce che guardo poco la TV? :-)
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Maria Luisa C - 01/10/2004 19.17.44


Parlando delle
parolechesonopiulunghedituttelealtreenonsignificanouncoso,
my italian friends told me that precipitevolissimevolmente was one of
the longest words in Italian, and asked me if we had an equivalent
English word, one that was supposed to be the longest.
We did have one - antidisestablishmentariianism.
I think both words are used with equal frequency.  :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 Joe from Massachusetts
"Chi troppo in alto sal cade sovente
precipitevolissimevolmente."
È un detto abbastanza citato.
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oggi no, domani sì