Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: What does Peltio mean?

What does Peltio mean? In www.tiscalinet/peltio/ I found this answer:
"Nada de nada. That's all there is to it."
But my dictionary says:
pelting = trifling, paltry
to pelt = to beat violently, to assail with
words (or stones and so on)  
I'm sure that Peltio has something to do
with "insignificante, trascurabile" but also, at the same time, with
"violence". The most violent people are often the most "socialmente
insignificanti". What do you think about it?
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insignificanti". What do you think about it?
Who cares?  Get a life!  Don't you have anything better to do than sit there
and analyze names?

and analyze names?
I'm
sorry for you, I was analyzing persons.
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 What does Peltio mean?
Such a sloppy attempt at determining etymology is a just a fantasy game for the
ill-informed, so I wouldn't indulge in it. I can tell you, however, that a BB is
what children use instead of real bullets. They are relatively ineffectual at
being anything more that just an annoyance.
Ciao,
Ron
USA

ill-informed, so I wouldn't
indulge in it. 
Well farted, Ron!
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 I can tell you, however, that a BB is what children use instead of real bullets. 
Baked Bullets?
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I know you can't speak, I know you can't sign
So cry right here on the dotted line

 Baked Bullets?
A BB is a little pellet that is shot out of a child's toy BB gun. Appropriately
enough, the pellet looks kind of like a rat turd.
Ciao,
Ron
USA


I do not have the privilege of knowing what a rat's turd look like, so I take
your word for it (I was wondering what BB stands for...)
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 your word for it (I was wondering what BB stands for...)
I'm sure that you can find a prime example in some seedy part of Venice. As far
as I know, BB is not an initialism (which differs from an acronym) but is the
name of the type of pellet.
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 name of the type of pellet.
BB stands for 'ball bearing'. The pellet is in fact the size of a small ball
bearing.
Noi diciamo 'fucile a piombini'.
The relative ineffectuality of this kind of pellets accounts for the 18% of
incidents caused by weapons in U.S.
Now for what concerns, "initialism", the word was brand new to me, so I
checked some dictionaries, but I found controversial answers. While the
Merriam Webster gives a concise definition "an acronym formed from initial
letters", the American Heritage says:
"An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a
phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or
components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words
and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling
out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word"
that is also, more or less,  the definition for the term 'acronym'.
I would be grateful if you can give me a hint, also because I am not able to
find a corresponding italian term.
Ciao
Giorgio

So cry right here on
the dotted line
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 find a corresponding italian term.
Ball bearing sounds right, so then "BB" is an initialism. An acronym is
pronounced as a word, for example BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), said as if it
were the name of a spiky-haired cartoon character.
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 were the name of a spiky-haired cartoon character.
Ah, I see, thanks Ron.
I think that the corresponding term in italian is 'sigla'
Ciao
Giorgio

 I do not have the privilege of knowing what a rat's turd look like. [...]
Dear Lup Buono,
Nothing like a sheep's dag, that's for certain.
Two privileges missed.
We can't have it all I suppose.
I remain as always, in jest
Bambi
dtb

 Wh...
FANTOCCI, E' LEI ?

 FANTOCCI, E' LEI ?
ROTFL

 FANTOCCI, E' LEI ?
Eh, eh, eh! Bellissima. Grunt!
P.


I didn't get it.
some us us live across the pond.  Remember? :-))
bye
arianna

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Strano. Il fiolet aveva postato la spiegazione non più di quindici giorni fa
in un thread 'A gallant knight' dove eri presente anche tu.
Riposto il poscritto di Peltio
PS for native speakers:
Fantozzi is a popular character invented by actor and writer Paolo Villaggio
(who played his role in the movies based on the novels he wrote).
In one of these movies, Fantozzi is trying to make an anonimous phone call
to his dreadful 'megagalactichairman' by putting a potato in his mouth, with
an hankie in front of it and by camouflaging his voice after having put his
head inside a pot.
The very moment he picks the phone up, a voice from the other side of the
line growls:
"Fantocci, is that you?"
Ciao
Giorgio

in un thread 'A gallant knight' dove eri presente anche tu.
Ah....amnesia totale.   Scusa, scusa. Cerchero' di stare piu' attenta la
prossima volta.  Ho capito ora...
ROFL.....
Gracias (a la vida)
arianna

 FANTOCCI, E' LEI ?
I'm sorry to disappoint you. You should MODEL your brains more properly.


I am in the process of rearranging my daily activities so that I can slip in
one hour dedicated to close observation of animal dumpings.
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