Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Scatola di cioccolatini

Ciao a tutti,
Non so come dire "scatola di cioccolatini". La frase sarebbe: "Le ho portato
due scatole di cioccolatini."
Grazie mille a chiunque mi risponda.
Aristotele Eagle

 due scatole di cioccolatini."
http://www.wordreference.com/it/en/translation.asp?iten=cioccolatino&v=b
"Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna
get."
Ciao, FB
-- 
L'importante č che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
(Lucangel su it.cultura.libri)

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:rreuzzvqdq03$.1tn41yw8aasam.dlg@40tude.net...
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Eh... ce l'ho domani....
In the mouth of the wolf or in the ass of the whale, as you please.
Sebastiano

 grazie per il box... ci avevo pensato ma non ne ero sicuro..
Non č "scatola", ma "scatola di cioccolatini". Quando traduci non puoi
assemblare piů di tanto.
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:19:34 GMT, FB wrote:
1st anniversary
A: Hi sweety, this box of chocolates is for you!
B: Are you crazy? Do you think I wanna be fat?
2nd anniversary
A: Hi sweety, no box of chocolates for you this time, but ...
B: What? Do you think I am fat?
Sebastiano

 In the mouth of the wolf or in the ass of the whale, as you please.
Between the boobs of the ant!
Ciao
Fabio

 - I don't. They're fattening.
and a little bit flattering though, lol

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LOL
And never, never answer the following question:
"Honey, do I look fat?"
Pretend to have a heart attack and let them drag you to the Emergency Room
because no matter what you say, it's the wrong answer. :)
-- 
I am Ketzl's stooge
Un-not my address if you wanna e-mail me.

 "Honey, do I look fat?"
1) 
- No.
- No??!!!!!!!! Are you crazy?! I'm as fat as a whale! You're not sincere.
You're a liar. No, no, you are teasing me! That's what you're doing! 
Mum, I'm going to call my mother! SHE can only understand me. You, you
bastard! Where's my suitcase?!
2) 
- Yes.
- Yes? I'm fat, then? You've just said I... am... fat. I - AM - FAT.
Well, if yawannaknow, you're twice as fat as I am, you're bald and fat!
Mum, I'm going to call my mother! SHE can only understand me. You, you
bastard! Where's my suitcase?!
Bye, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

because no matter what you say, it's the wrong answer. :)
LOL.
You can answer that. The key is *don't watch*.
A:"Honey, do I look fat?"
B (he watches her): No, I don't think so.
A: (angry): You don't THINK so? You're mean! (she cries and leaves).
A:"honey, do I look fat?
B: (without even looking at her) No.
Always shoot the *right* answer without even looking at her. :)
A:(lifting her shirt) "honey, do you think my boobs are small?"
B: (without watching her) No.
A: (angry) You didn't even watch them! You're mean! (she cries)
B: (he watches her) Don't you worry, honey. I have them in my mind. I
always have them. Whenever I close my eyes I see boobs anywhere.
A: (angry) You're a pig! You always think about sex. (she cries and
leaves).
Damn, I can get it to work out right. ;)
Sebastiano

 B (he looks at her): No, I don't think so.
etc.
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Replace every "watch" with "look (at)" and you've got it. :)
You're right, dammit! Why on earth did I use "to watch"?
That's like the fat question, you don't have to answer. But if you
don't, I might feel abandoned. And if you do, we'll have to deal with
the answer. Damn.
Oh, all right! Shoot! We'll tough it out. ;)
Sebastiano

 Oh, all right! Shoot! We'll tough it out. ;)
Tough? Nah, I don't think so. You know the difference; it just slipped by
your fingers.
"to watch" implies you will be spending some time "looking at" something.
You watch a movie; TV; sports; the traffic go by; the clouds go by; an
operation; the grass grow :) (if you have a lot of time on your hands.)
Looking at something is much more immediate and active:
Look at that car chase! What a movie!
Look at all the commercials!
Look at him run! He scored!
Look at this traffic. We'll never get there.
I say it's going to rain. Look at all those clouds.
Look! The surgeon is removing the patient's entire head!
(Pretty hard to "look at the grass growing" but I suppose everything is
possible.
Although you will hear people say "I'm looking at the TV," to me that
sounds like they're not watching *what's on* TV, but what's on *the* TV.
à la Monty Python:
"What's on the telly?" "There's a penguin on the telly." :)
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 watched it".
That's a perfect contrast of the two. You have redeemed yourself! Have a
gelato!
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gelato!
Yay! I'll eat some after lunch, then. ;)
She was asleep, lying on the couch in my apartment. Her pale left arm
was around her head, and her silk negligée was hypnotizing me with a
play of shadows and silver shades. Her whole body sparkled under the
soft moonlight that filtered through the open window. She was
beautiful. I looked at her, for hours. I was watching her. It was like
I was seeing her for the first time in my life.
Sebastiano

Yay! I'll eat some after lunch, then. ;)
Then I'll eat some after lunch...
Sebastiano

- always - I get mad. :)
Hi Seb, I just thought I'd point out that "make" goes with "mistake"
and not "do".
"Yeah, I know the difference. I hate *it* when I *make* *these* kind
of mistakes. When I make a mistake because I am using a word for the
first time, or a very strange word, it's ok. But when I *make*
mistakes with common words - always - I get mad. :) (I always get mad)
You know why I'm here, I'm not trying to pass myself off as an expert,
I'm far from but I like to try to help if I can. I just thought that
this statement "I hate when I do this kind of mistakes" was pretty
ironic :)

ironic :)
Of course it was ironic. I did it on purpose. Ok, I'm a terrible liar!
;)
I was thinking in italian, that's it.
"odio quando faccio questo tipo di errori". That explains the use of
this instead of these. :/
Sebastiano

 Thanks, Jonny.
you were such in a rush you made another one... :)
don't worry, it happens to us all to blunder even when speaking our own
language too :-)))
Sometimes I create expressions we've never known of... :)))
for instance, even an American teacher told me this expression "it was just
to keep the ball on the court"
when I asked "Is it like to keep the ball rolling?" she gazed at me and
replied to my caustic remark
saying it was her own personal version of my saying...=)

saying it was her own personal version of my saying...=)
^_^
Sebastiano

 ^_^
:)

you really want to use that "do" don't you? *g*
What do you want me to say, that I make make mistakes? ^_^
Sebastiano

 What do you want me to say, that I make make mistakes? ^_^
lol :-)

 saying it was her own personal version of my saying...=)
If I can throw my hat in the ring, sometimes people also mix common
expressions. Put that in your hat and chew it... errr, I mean put that in
your pipe and smoke it. Now it's in your court.

your pipe and smoke it. Now it's in your court.
"This is liberty hall; you can spit on the cat and call the mat a
bastard" or, if you prefer the right one, swap the cat with the mat 
 :-)
'bye

your pipe and smoke it. Now it's in your court.
It's another notch in the first rung on the slippery slope towards
anarchy.
The octopus of fascism is singing its swan-song: the jackboot is
thrown into the melting-pot.
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
If I were a fuzzy wuzzy bear
3 would be a perfect square