Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: il contrario di default

Specific?
Not default?

 Not default?
 
Dipende dal contesto, non puoi mai tradurre parola per parola, che frase stai cercando di tradurre?
 
ciao
Giacomo

 Not default?
 
Some words can have many meanings.
For which meaning do you need an opposite?
 
default
noun
1 failure to fulfill an obligation, esp. to repay a loan or appear in a court 
of law: it will have to restructure its debts to avoid default.
2 a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when 
no alternative is specified by the user or programmer: the default is fifty 
lines | [ as modifier ] : default settings.
 
verb [ no obj. ]
1 fail to fulfill an obligation, esp. to repay a loan or to appear in a court 
of law: some had defaulted on student loans.
ï¿œ [ with obj. ] declare (a party) in default and give judgment against that 
party: the possibility that cases would be defaulted and defendants released.
2 (default to) (of a computer program or other mechanism) revert 
automatically to (a preselected option): when you start a fresh letter, the 
system will default to its own style.
 
-- 
Joey from New York
Among those whom I like or admire, I can findï¿œno common denominator,
but among thoseï¿œwhom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
ï¿œ ï¿œ-- WH Auden
 

 Not default?
 
Dipende dal contesto ma forse "user-specified" (se si tratta del computer).
 


 
user defined?

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si, forse può andar bene

user defined?
 
Anche "custom(ized)".
 
 
-- 
Ci sono 10 tipi di persone al mondo: quelle che capiscono il sistema binario
e quelle che non lo capiscono.


 
Giusto, meglio la tua.
 
BTW, per un po' da che è partito il thread avevo pensato a
"default" nel senso di "bancarotta" e proporre
"healthy/sound economy" mi pareva orrendo :D Ci son tanti
termini inglesi che in italiano sono veramente goffi...
 

 In Africa probabilmente. In Inglese si scrive "customised".
 
Why did you spell "America"   A-F-R-I-C-A?   :)
 
-- 
Joey from New York
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
   -- WH Auden
 

 Because colonies are all the same.
 
I'm not really responding to this post, but it reminded me of something.
 
So, I hope that frequent readers of this newsgroup will indulge me in a 
little off-topic amused rambling in regard to this thread. I am often 
initially confused when I read attempts to insult Americans, like this 
one, because although I recognize the attempt to insult, the actual 
choice of method is so foreign to me, that I have to search inside 
myself for an emotional reaction other than the kind of amusement one 
feels when noticing an anachronism in a film.
 
I think that this kind of insipid attempt at humor actually illustrates 
one of the fundamental differences between Americans and Europeans, and 
Italians in particular. It reminds me of a time when I was talking to a 
Sicilian who lived in Sicily, and she asked my surname. My surname is of 
Italian origin, even Sicilian origin, but it's not a common surname. So 
when she responded that she'd never heard of it, that was no surprise to 
me, but I could tell from her reaction that she thought that she had 
successfully insulted me.
 
I can honestly tell you that I may be somewhat insulted in recognizing 
the attempt to insult, but on the whole I am bewildered as to why this 
small-minded person could possibly think that he or she had achieved any 
effect with such a weak-wristed jab. But then I realize that Europeans, 
and especially Italians, care intensely about status in a historical 
sense. And Americans, to a large extent, really don't care very much 
about past status. Maybe it's because social mobility, which is tied to 
money in the US, even if it is scandalously inflexible, enjoys much more 
freedom here than in Europe.
 
This tendency, and it is only a general tendency, of focusing on who 
people are, rather than on their backgrounds, is so ingrained in me that 
I am still, to this day, surprised when I encounter prejudice related to 
background or the past. I realize that this is a wild generalization, 
but I hope others will recognize this odd cultural difference, and may 
have some comment based on their own experience.
 
You can hate our government because of its invasive military presence in 
the world and the frequency with which it uses force, but please, don't 
embarrass yourself by condescending about the fact that we once fought 
and won our independence from a monarchy. Hee-hee.

 I'm not really responding to this post, but it reminded me of something.
 
This is a great post actually, it sums up so many truths about US and 
Europe. Too bad it probably exceeds both the attention span and the 
reading skills of this «*» poster…
 

 try to deny that your country was not a colony
 
See - I was right.


 
I write very seldom, but I read you almost every day.
I also found Tony's post excellent - and I am Italian (although since 34 
years abroad).
 
I don't think that * understands what this newsgroup is all about and his 
unfriendly way is really out of place.
 
Not only, maybe * is not aware of the fact that English is a language that 
exists in 5 different linguistically recognized standards:
 
1. British English
2. American English
3. Australian English
4. Indian English (i.e., English spoken in India, not that spoken by 
American Indians! :-))
5. Hong Kong Chinese English
 
These were at least the 5 standards about 20 years ago - I wouldn't be 
surprised if new standards had been added, now that practically the whole 
world speaks some sort of English.
 
By the way, as far as science and culture are concerned, English is becoming 
exactly what Latin used to be up until the 19th century. At many 
Universitied worldwide more and more lectures are offered in English and 
students are often encouraged to write their thesis and dissertations in 
English!
 
Anna 
 
 

 I don't think that * understands what this newsgroup is all about
 
He doesn't care: simply put, he is a ï¿œtrollï¿œ, someone who gets his 
paltry kicks from anonimously vexing other people on the internet.

 See - I was right.
 
Exactly, which is why I ignored his ignorant post in the first place. His 
second post qualifies him as terribly narrow-minded as well.
 
After this, I won't see any more of his, so Amen to that and R.I.P.
 
-- 
Joey from New York
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On Apr 1, 2013, Tony the Ice Man wrote
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Well said, Tony, but I'm afraid your two- and three-syllable words will be a 
problem for him. Oops, you even threw in a couple of four-syllable words. Oh 
well,
 
-- 
Joey from New York
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 ...  anonimously vexing other people on the internet.
 
anonymously
 
That's a very Italian error. On the other side, I find that Italian is 
creeping into my immagination and I sometimes write English words with a 
double consonant, confusing them with the Italian spelling.
 

On Apr 2, 2013, Tony the Ice Man wrote
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You mean like "imagination"?  :)
 
-- 
Joey from New York
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well, that was the point...

>I'm not really responding to this post, but it reminded me of something.
 
Thank you for your post, Tony
 

 Why did you spell "America"   A-F-R-I-C-A?   :)
 
Ironic, isn't it? The guy named the only continent that, according to some
already outdated research, is not a colony at all.
Since Homo sapiens seems to have originated in that continent and then
migrated to every other part of the world, it is all other continents
(including Europe) that should be regarded as "colonies" in the first
place :)
 
 
 
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I think you made that on purpose! ;-)

 
 
+1
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On Apr 4, 2013, Max wrote
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Apparently, but it wasn't obvious to me.
 
-- 
Joey from New York
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
   -- WH Auden
 

 Apparently, but it wasn't obvious to me.
 
Aww, come on! After all these years at this newsgroup, you haven't come 
to recognize the dry confidence and wry self-effacement, tempered by 
false modesty and immature absurdity, that characterizes my sense of humor?
 
However, I did have to check to make sure that "immature" has two m's 
before posting this.

On Apr 4, 2013, Tony the Ice Man wrote
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No, Tony, I'm sorry, but I didn't. In fact, in a group like this where there 
are readers with varying degrees of comprehension, I thought it prudent to 
point out the anomaly in your otherwise-serious sounding post.
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OK, no problem. A straight-faced dry tone is often misconstrued even in 
person. Perhaps I should have added "idiolectal" to my list of sense of 
humor traits.

 that practically the whole world speaks some sort of English.
 
 
Jamaican English!
:-)
 
-- 
The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
    -- Mark Twain
 

 Jamaican English!
 
Italian English :-D
 
-- 
Audiente autem omni populo, dixit discipulis suis: “Attendite a scribis, 
qui volunt ambulare in stolis et amant salutationes in foro et primas 
cathedras in synagogis et primos discubitus in conviviis”.(Lc, 20,45-46)