Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: The Maligned Wolf

Questa e' la storia di Cappuccetto Rosso narrata dal lupo.
The forest was my home.  I lived there and I cared about it.  I tried to keep
it neat and clean.  Then one sunny day, while I was cleaning up some garbage
that a camper had left behind, I heard footsteps.  I leaped behind a tree and
saw a rather plain little girl coming down the trail carrying a basket.  I
was suspicious of this little girl right away because she was dressed
funny-all in red, and her head covered up so it seemed like she didn't want
people to know who she was.  Naturally, I stopped to check her out.  I asked
who she was, where she was going, where she had come from and all that.  She
gave me a song and dance about going to her grandmother's house with a basket
for lunch.  She appeared to be basically an honest person, but she was in my
forest and she certainly looked suspicious with that strange getup of hers. 
So I decided to teach her just how serious it is to prance throught the
forest unannounced and dressed funny. I let her go on her way, but I ran
ahead to her grandmother's house.  When I saw that nice old woman, I
explained my problem and she agreed that her granddaughter needed to learn a
lesson, all right. The old woman agreed to stay out of sight until I called
her.  Actually, she hid under the bed. When the girl arrived, I invited her
into the bedroom where I was in the bed, dressed like the grandmother.	The
girl came in all rosy-cheeked and said something nasty about my big ears. 
I've been insulted before so I made the best of it by suggesting that my big
ears would help me to hear better.  Now, what I meant was that I liked her
and wanted to pay close attention to what she was saying, but she makes
another insulting crack about my bulging eyes.	Now you can see how I was
beginning to feel about this girl who put on such a nice front, but
apparently was a very nasty person.  Still, I've made it a policy to turn the
other cheek, so I told her that my big eyes helped me to see her better. Her
next insult really got to me.  I've got this problem with having big teeth. 
And that little girl made an insulting crack about them.  I know that I
should have had better control, but I leaped up from that bed and growled
that my teeth would help me to eat her better. Now let's face it-no wolf
could ever eat a little girl-everyone knows that-but that crazy girl started
running around the house screaming-me chasing her to calm her down.  I'd
taken off the grandmother's clothes, but that only seemed to make it worse. 
And all of a sudden the door came crashing open and a big lumberjack is
standing here with his axe.  I looked at him and all of a sudden it became
clear that I was in trouble.  There was an open window behind me and out I
went. I'd like to say that was the end of it.  But that Grandmother character
never did tell my side of the story.  Before long the word got oround that I
was a mean, nasty guy.	Everybody started avoiding me.	I don't know about
that little girl with the funny red outfit, but I didn't live happily ever
after.	In fact, now us wolves are practically extinct!  And I'm sure that
little gir's story has had a lot to do with it.
Did you like it?  Isn't it cute?  It took me a long time to type it.  I hope
you found it amusing and thought provoking. Let me know what you think.
side note:  the wolf, one of the most beautiful and intellingent animals to
inhabit our plantet.
Ciao
Arianna
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inhabit our planet.
There you go.
Ciao
Isa

inhabit our plantet.
[OT] "The Company of Wolves" ("In compagnia dei lupi")
"the Desire... the Fantasy... the Nightmare. In the dead of the night the
beast is unleashed!"
Ciao,
Dario.
OT from ITA

...
Se non si è capito, la storia mi è piaciuta molto.
Dario.
"I punti di vista... points of view... James... Woolf..."


Oh che carino!	Mi piacerebbe tanto vederlo. I just love wolves and all of
the other animals who through no fault of their own have gotten a bad
reputation (like the snake). Sono dei fumetti o dei cartoni animati? Sono
contenta che ti sia piaciuta la storiella.  Ho un sacco di roba carina in
inglese che posso postare se vi interessa.
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inglese che posso postare se vi interessa.
Posta quello che ti pare, tutto serve ad imparare.
Ciao
Isa

 ricorda Lupo de' Lupis?
  Sapevo il nome originale, ma non lo ricordo (Giuro!)
  Saluti
  Gigi
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"Aiuto il lupo", prendendolo a bastonate.
Vero, vero!
Grazie
Isa

 >reputation (like the snake). 
Sarebbe inglese questo : "I just love all other animals who without their own
fault have gotten a bad reputation"?
Giovanni

fault have gotten a bad reputation"?
Non capisco la domanda: chiedi se la frase è in inglese corretto o chiedi se
rimane tale togliendo la parte "wolves and"?
Per quanto riguarda la frase di Ari è - ovviamente - perfetta (semplicemente
amo i lupi e tutti gli altri animali che, senza alcuna loro colpa, si son
fatti una cattiva reputazione, come il serpente). Nel secondo caso,
preferirei "I just love all animals..." senza 'other'.
Ciao
Isa

 davano "Aiuto il lupo", prendendolo a bastonate.
Oh poor little thing!!!!!!  you are making me cry!!!!!! If you haven't read
"The Maligned Wolf", please read it.  It's a very cute story!
Bye
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 preferirei "I just love all animals..." senza 'other'.
Hai ragione.  Non so perche' ci ho messo dentro quel "other".  Forse ero
mezza addormentata.
Ciao
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 Isa
Non sono stato chiaro, anche perche' ho omesso due parole.
La domanda era se rimaneva inglese corretto la frase "I just love wolves and all
other animals who without their own fault have gotten a bad reputation".
Volevo cioe' sapere se la costruzione "all of the other animals" e l'altra
"through no fault of their own" sono imposte da regole di stile o possono essere
sostituite da quelle, piu' semplici, che ho scritto io.
Grazie.
Giovanni

 Giovanni
Giovanni, la prima frase sarebbe andata meglio scritta "all other animals" 
or "all animals".. Come ho detto gia' in un altro post forse ero addormantata
quando l'ho scritta.  La seconda frase che tu menzioni e che tu hai
riproposto come "withough their own fault" o qualcosa di simile e' corretta e
non penso si possa cambiare almeno che non la si cambi completamemte. Through
no fault of my own Through no fault of his own etc.  (l'aggettivo possessivo
cambia a seconda del soggetto)
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