Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: She bangs?

What does it mean?
Ho sentito per radio che il titolo di questa canzone di Richy Mrtin in slang
(non so di dove) significa un qualcosa di particolare credo legato ad atti
sessuali, e che quando alla BBC hanno presentato la canzone hanno omesso il
titolo perche troppo forte?
Grazie per l'aiuto
Guido

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Significa fare sesso in modo brutale. Ma Martin ha dichiarato che intendeva
parlare di una donna "forte, decisa", non di qualcosa di licenzioso.

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As in the Australianism: "She bangs like a dunny door in the wind"
Raymot
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 Riccardo può dichiarare quello che vuole ma alle orecchie di uno che
conosce l'inglese il verbo in questione assume
   un unico significato, piacevole sicuramente ma vietato ai minori.
   Yours
Sal

Grazie a tutti siete statti chiarissimi e molto competenti.
Guido

 Raymot
Dear Raymot,
ROTFLOL!
That's the one.
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I remain, as always,
Bambi
dtb

Significa fare sesso in modo brutale.
Not where I am.  I never thought this meant "in modo brutale".
I like to bang = I like to screw
ciao
arianna

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Dear Arianna,
I would have to agree. 'to bang' is to have sex. I do not know of any
specific  roughness attached to the expression.
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>From: "Bambi" 
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Thanks Bamb (two syllables are too many for us Americans).  I always look for
someone to validate my answers and usually that someone is either you or Mary. 
I don't think we have any other English subjects in our group, do we?
by the way...when I wrote my post, I wasn't talking about myself.  It was just
an example.
ciao
ari

 an example.
Dear Arianna,
As for your last line, ça-va sans dire but of course!
I am not aware of any other British Realmers among us I must confess, but
then who knows who is lurking out there.
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 Mckenzie, who  plays "Dame Edna Everidge" on the stage.
[...]
Dear Stephen,
Shame on you. It's Mister (if you please) Barry _Humphries_ and the great
Dame would be Edna Ever_A_ge.
But not to fear, possum, she's on tour at the moment and far too busy being
a Megastar and having new frocks fitted to have noticed.
Welcome among us, making as it does three of us Pommies that we know of.
Spooky Possum, spooky.
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I remain, as always, ecc., ecc.,
Bambi
dtb

Welcome among us, making as it does three of us Pommies 
Bambi, what's a Pommy?
ciao
arianna

 Bambi, what's a Pommy?
Dear Arianna,
A term Australians use when referring to us Brits. One Pomm, two Pommies.
(I think the double M is correct).  Why and from whence it comes? I am not
certain. Perhaps Raymot or Loki could advise.
--
I remain, as always,
Bambi
dtb

 certain. Perhaps Raymot or Loki could advise.
According to 
dictionary.com
, three variants of the word exist, which are
"pom", "pommy", "pommies".  Thus, apparently, the double 'm' is not 
in order.
As for its origin, it is said to a "short for pomegranate, alteration of
Pummy Grant, probably alteration of immigrant" [cut and pasted from
dictionary.com
].
Maxim

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Pommy - an English person - probably from "pomegranate", rhyming slang for 
an immigrant. Definitely not from the purported POME, supposedly standing for
Prisoner of Mother England" (Macquarie Book of Slang)
(Also Pom, Pommy Bastard, Whingeing Pom, etc.)
pomegranate; also pommygranate. pommygrant - An immigrant from the British Isles.
- Bulletin (1912) "The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed
a bridle and told to catch a horse ...
(Australian Words and their Origins, Oxford)
Raymot
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A term for an English immigrant, or in fact anyone who comes from
'Pommieland" and who's accent may get them lumped together as being from
Britain. The distinction between Scotland Wales and England not often
being made by colonials.
cheers,
Loki
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 dtb
But certainly,
One m will do :-) (Pom pommie)
My NZ dictionary attributes it to being possibly a play on the words
pomegranate and immigrant but I can't see it myself. Seeing as
pomegranites are not something Aussies are familiar with.  
IMHO I would immagine the first rulers and free immigrants were pompous
in that endearing  upperclass way that riled the freed convicts of which
more than a few were Irish.
But I can't prove it...
Having read the other replies...
I see Pummy Grant = immigrant, so where did 'Pummy' come from. Could be
a clue there, but I guess we will never really know.
cheers,
Loki
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Her'es another Brit...  Welsh rather than English...
Is that right? Where exactly in Wales...? 
I have very, very fond memories of South and Mid Glamorgan. Those were
the days... (OK, OK, stop staring, I'll get back to work!).
Bye (and now I wish I'd learnt how to say that in Welsh),
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscalinet.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/

(Also Pom, Pommy Bastard, Whingeing Pom, etc.)
You naughty little thing, you.
ROTFL (...anyone read Kathy Lette out there?)
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being made by colonials.
I suspect the Poms, being the Poms they are, would maintain colonials
are not smart enough to make it? (TFIC!)
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 Bye (and now I wish I'd learnt how to say that in Welsh),
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"I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was still necessary..."
I hadn't, and thanks for a hearty laugh-- 
May I just, with all due respect and still grinning widely, advise you
to get rid of the better part of the message you're responding to
(otherwise known as "quoting"), and write your contribution under the
quoted message, as opposed to over it? Just like I'm doing now...
everybody will be grateful, take my word for it.
Ciao,
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 Isa
They may... but we're just too far away to really be worried by it all,
I mean the British Isles would fit in one Aussie state :-)))) 
Loki
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