Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: 11 frasi tradotte bene?

Buonasera.
Chiedo il vostro aiuto nel controllare se le traduzioni delle 11 frasi 
seguenti sono corrette.
Grazie in anticipo.
Italo
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1) Da quanto tempo lo conosci? Lo conosco da molto tempo, ma non lo vedo da 
tre mesi.
How long have you been knowing him? I know him since a long time, but I 
haven’t been seeing him since three months
2) Gioco a tennis da quando ho 6 anni
I’m playing tennis since I was 6
3) I miei genitori mi fanno studiare tutti i week-end, e probabilmente 
prenderò un buon voto
My parents make me study every week-end, so I probabilly have a good 
valuation
4) Quando hai visto Sam l’ultima volta? L’ho appena visto!
When did you see Sam for the last time?I’ve just seen him!
5) Cosa farai domani a pranzo? Vedrò Sara davanti al cinema e mangeremo 
assieme.
what will you do tomorrow for lunch?I’m seeing Sara in front of the Cinema 
and we’re going to eat together
6) Ho intenzione di chiamare la ragazza con cui Sam vive, perché non mi ha 
ancora restituito il mio libro.
I’m going to call the girl Sam stays with, because she hasn’t given me back 
my book yet.
7) Vorrei vederti ancora, avrei voluto chiederti scusa.
I’wish I saw you again, I wished I had beg your pardon
8) Se solo ti avessi visto prima, te lo avrei detto
If only I saw you sooner, I would have told it to you.
9) Lo farò quando potrò
I’ll do it when I can
10) Avrei dovuto parlargli.
I should have spoken him
11) Lo avevo vista prima che giocasse a tennis
I had seen him, bifore he played tennis 

 seguenti sono corrette.
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11: no
5, 9: si'

 know, I don't meet him for 3 months
No! Absolutely not.
et seq:
Your suggestions to the OP's translations are *all wrong.* (And drop the 'you 
know' every sentence. It sounds absurd.)
The OP did much better, but those have irregularities as well.
Maybe I'm out of sync here, but I seem to remember when it was de rigueur to 
provide corrections to attempted translations that fail.
Now it seems all I see here are things like
"No, those are wrong." or sass or nothing at all.
What gives? Why has this changed? Anyone?
-- 
Joe/Joey da New York

 What gives? Why has this changed? Anyone?
When I replied, I didn't have time to correct and comment on 11
translations,
some of them wrong in several ways. Rather than say nothing, I said
which ones were wrong. I may or may not give a longer answer later.

 I had seen him, bifore he played tennis
before. e "had seen" sembra corretto, ma la frase sembra strana. boh.

 my book yet.
o  "given me my book back"?

 I had seen him, bifore he played tennis
Before, non bifore.
Una curiosita'....da dove vengono le frasi italiane?
gfc

together)
Io avrei usato il "what are you doing" nella domanda ed il "going to" nella 
risposta
Francesco

 I have just seen him?
Perché in America si dice così.
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
-- 
There are two kinds of Italians, those who work for Berlusconi and those 
who are about to.


I'd have said 'What are you doing' too :
'What are you doing for lunch tomorrow ? I'm meeting Sarah outside the 
cinema and we're going for a meal together .'
Mike

 'I have seen' - present perfect ; negative 'I haven't seen'
Grazie. Non lo ricordavo!!
Francesco

 gfc
Un esercizio a scuola, copiato in fretta.
Grazie mille fgc! Sei stato molto gentile. Le tue tradizioni mi aiutano a 
capire meglio alcune regole.
Italo. 

 better translation.  Maybe Adam or Joe or Tony can come up with one.
I wanted to apologise? I wanted to say sorry?
I can't think of anything with "I would have wanted to" in it that
sounds real. "I wish I could have said sorry". "I'd have liked to say
sorry."? Hmm. Maybe even "I'd like to apologise" or "I'd like to say
sorry".

 Grazie mille fgc! Sei stato molto gentile. 
Forse non tutti sanno che... "gfc" sono le iniziali della nostra Arianna.
(Ari, cosa aspetti a restituirti il tuo *vero* nick?) :-) 
-- 
Anna

 Anna
Hey!  Come va in quel di Torino?  Ho deciso di rimanere anonima per un
po'.
Ti aspetto.
A.


Si' grazie.  Naturalmente e' "probably".

 Ti aspetto.
Arriverņ, sooner or later! :-)
-- 
Anna

 
You can go on thinking whatever you want, but I assure you, no one I know or 
have ever known speaks with that many "you know"s or "Yah!"s. You're 
overdoing it, or maybe you're just putting them in the wrong place. You know? 
Yah, I think you do.
1) How long have you known him? I've known him for a long time but I haven't 
seen him for three months.
If you say "I knew him for (a) long time" that means you don't know him any 
more.
"I didn't meet him for three months" is ambiguous. If you said that to me I'd 
expect to hear that you then met him after the three months (which would be 
impossible, because you don't know him any more.)
See?
Yeah.
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 -Maddoff didn't buy bonds or shares-
Small bites from your post for me, otherwise I'd choke... :-)
I think she must have said: 
   "Madoff should have bought bonds..."
but even if she said "Madoff should have to buy..."
(the meaning of which isn't clear)
it's not the same as
   "Madoff didn't buy bonds"
The first is conjectural, conditional:
his obligation was to buy... (but he didn't)
the other is a statement of fact: he didn't buy...
PS: Past tense of "say" = "said" (pr.: 'sed' not 'say'd')
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