Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Speak-Up

Salve, tempo fa' ho comprato un video sottotitolato in inglese ... credo che
in allegato ci fosse un glossario come gli altri ma l'ho perso e
l'edicolante dice che non si trova piu'.
Il Glossario e' del film "American Beauty" se qualcuno di voi lo avesse
ancora potrebbe scannerizzare le 4 paginette ed inviarmele?
Ho fatto anche una ricrca in internet ma non no trovato niente.
Grazie mille e buone feste
Gino

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:kK8Fb.199724$vO5.7...@twister1.libero.it...
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Non troverai l'inserto di Speak-Up, ma forse qualcosa di ancora piů utile.
Questo film l'ho visto in dvd(li noleggio) e se ricordo bene non aveva i
sottotitoli in italiano. Ma sicuramente aveva i sottotitoli in inglese.
E con il fermo immagine del dvd(che č perfetto) si puň leggere qualche
espressione idiomatica che non si conosce.
E' cosě che praticamente sostituisco il glossario del film. E quindi ne
faccio uno mio personale.
A volte i glossari riportano espressioni che gia conosco e quindi non č
utile per me, altre volte non riporta espressioni che non conosco e quindi
non mi č utile.
Ho fatto la prova a rivedere gli stessi film dopo un anno, e devo dire che
li comprendo anche senza leggere i sottotitoli:)
Poi dopo due anni di dvd, mi sono preso una pausa che dura da vari mesi.
Forse devo leggere di piů e ascoltare di meno:)
Ciao
Knowledge Man

>> (one pound is almost half a kilo, so do the math!)
ZioBit

>>> (one pound is almost half a kilo, so do the math!)
1lb (one pound) = 454g
  1oz            = 30g
These units are fast disappearing in the UK, but I suspect that they are 
still very much in use in the US where they seem terminally suspicious 
of the metric system.
For the benefit of the "Chi sono i madrelingua" - I am Northern English, 
born in Liverpool and living in Yorkshire.  I was a science teacher and 
now I'm an educational researcher.  I got into Italian through 
mountaineering and have done a bit of translating - Walking Guidebooks 
for the Apennines.
Cheers
-- 
John G Davies

 for the Apennines.
Well done, John! :)
-- 
Enrico C
"There must be a glitch in this softwware"
glitch: flaw (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 I just can't understand  how Americans can cope with that, though!
Come on, one day is 24 hours, one hour is 60 minutes, one minute is 60
seconds. Does this make any sense? :)
I think it's just a matter of habit.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

 writes
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The "imperial units" do make sense, if you check Italian history I think 
you'll find many similar measures.  The inch is the width of a man's 
thumb (hence pollice in Italian) it so happens that about 12 thumbs fit 
into the length of a "foot" and so on.
Because of their anthropomorphic nature they are quite easy to use, 
though as a scientist I do prefer metric measurements.
Enrico - my accent is clearly different to the standard RP English that 
you will generally hear, but all educated English people can be 
understood without much problem.  Unlike educated Italians we don't 
speak dialect that is the preserve of the "lower classes", unless we 
have re-educated ourselves.  I understand Yorkshire dialect, but I 
probably speak Italian better.
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 Cheers
Here I found some Yorkshire Dialect verse and a Yorkshire Dialect -
English dictionary.
http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/
Let me report just a few words, they look quite different from "usual
English" :)
 
Agait	Start, To go, Move, Work	
Bahn	Going	
Bastile 	Workhouse	
Britches	Trousers	
Clemmed	Hungry	
Dawks	Hands	
Doff	Take off	
Don	Put on (clothes)	
Een	Eyes	
Gainest	Nearest	
Gradely	Nice looking	
Lief	Rather	
Yatts	Gates	
Yoon 	Oven	
 
-- 
Enrico C
"I met many amigos there"
amigo: friend (from Spanish) (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 Lief	Rather	
Found in archaic standard English.
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Found in archaic standard English.
A lot of Yorkshire dialect does contain archaic woods and grammar, some 
of which originates from the Anglian invaders and towards the North and 
East of the county words of Norse origin are found - like lop = flea.
There's great variation in words, phrases and grammar because it's a 
large county with lots of different regions and traditional industries, 
so the fisherman of the East coast would speak quite differently to a 
Dales farmer, the dialects of the Wool Towns around Leeds and Bradford 
is different to the steel town of Sheffield or the pit villages of South 
Yorkshire.
A Spanish friend commented that the Great Vowel Shift never got to 
Yorkshire.
Night - pronounced      neet.
Right                   reet
Light                   leet.
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 Light                   leet.
[Italian thinking Mode]
He he! *That* is the right pronunciation ^_____^
[/Italian thinking Mode]
(it's a joke, no need to explain :)
-- 
Enrico C
"It takes megabucks to live in Japan"
megabucks: a large amount of money (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

that's easy --but then how many pounds is that? 
Ah, but the weights of cans will be convenient fractions of
pounds, such as 1/2 or 1/4.
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
In the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand
what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. (T. Lehrer)

 Light                   leet.
That's how I hear Scottish (Glasgow and Edimbourgh) people pronounce them.
Bye,
Frances
-- 
I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
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 pounds, such as 1/2 or 1/4.
That makes sense.
So, let's try again... Let's say our tomato cans, made of peeled
tomatoes, salt and basil leaves added, no onion please, weigh 4 ounces
each, id est 1/4  pound each. 
Ten cans are 2.5 pounds, twenty boxes are 5 pounds, thirty would make 
7.5 pounds as a whole. 
Yes, that's easier :) 
Not as easy as the decimal system, though!
But then, as someone said, easy or difficult is primarily a matter of 
habit :)
-- 
Enrico C
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