Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: whiped

qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi sulla pronuncia di whiped (nel senso di
frustato)?
grazie mille in anticipo
Davide

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forse volevi scrivere whipped
sulla pronuncia non ti dico niente perche' sono un cane. Sul webster c'è, e
non mi sarei mai sognato di pronunciare quella parola come fanno loro:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=whipped

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Mi dispiace, non ti posso aiutare con il pronuncia, ma si scrive
"whipped".

 frustato)?
E' "whipped", non "whiped". 
Non l'ho mai pronuciata in vita mia, ma direi che si pronuncia /wIpt/. 
(Forse qualche americano la pronuncia /hwIpt/.)
Max

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dovrebbe essere qualcosa tipo /wIpt/ molto contratto.

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Credo che la parola che buschi sia "whipped" che č il tempo
passato e anche il participio passato del verbo "to whip."
Sembra che il significato che buschi sia un'estensione.  Si
usa figurativamente per descrivere una persona conquistata
dai suoi problemi o dalla vita.
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 Credo che la parola che buschi
"Buscare" is a false friend for those who know Spanish:
"buscar" ==> "to look for" ==> "cercare"
"buscare" ==> colloquial verb for some meanings of "to get"
"buscarle" ("buscar" + "le", that is "to get them (feminine plural)") ==>
"to get a good hiding"
Bye, FB
-- 
"Gli americani sono ignoranti per loro stessa natura"
that is "The Americans are naturally ignorant"
(Paolo Bonardi on it.cultura.linguistica)

 "to get a good hiding"
isn't it more like "to catch a disease"?
Mi ho fatto ridere con questo.  Ho confuso buscar con cercare.
Ho la faccia rossa per due motivi:  il riso e la vergogna.
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 sulla pronuncia non ti dico niente perche' sono un cane.
Ma tu sei un cane?? Perche' non me lo diceva prima? A me piacciono i cani.
Mi fa piacere cacciarli. :)
-- 
I am Joey's cat.
Un-not my address if you wanna e-mail me.

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I think you may have two words worked into one here, but I can't be sure
because of the definition you have given.
"whipped" (with 2 p's) [wipt] is a slang term for "under someone's power"
(so to speak.) I believe the original phrase was "p***y whipped", where
"p***y" is a word meaning a sweet, little kitty (but also part of the
female anatomy). "They've been going together (dating) for only two weeks,
but he's already (p***y) whipped!" I think the image is of someone being
"whipped into shape", which is a somewhat common expression.
There's also
"wiped" [waipt] which is a shortening of "wiped out" which means either
very tired, as in "I'm wiped out! I worked hard all day." or "to crash", as
in "He wiped out (the car) on that last turn."
-- 
The foregoing is my opinion, and my opinion alone. It is intended to
demonstrate modern American English -- colloquial and spoken, (but well
spoken) for the most part; not literary American English. Ergo, caveat
lector. (No, not you, Hannibal)
Oh, if you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.

 Mi fa piacere cacciarli. :)
Come puoi farmi questo ? Sono il migliore amico dell'uomo ! Se mi scacci ti
mordo.
BITE, GNAM!

 mordo.
Il migliore amico dell'uomo, magari, ma GATTO sono io.
(Ma mi piacciono proprio i cani.. scherzavo.)
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lo so lo so..... ne approfitto invece per tornare in tema.
In inglese quindi non c'è l'utilizzo italiano del termine "cane". Qui si
dice ovviamente che se fai le cose da cani le fai male
(con fantasiose aggiunte regionali e volgari, tipo alla "cazzo di cane").
Tuttavia "fare una cosa da cani" non è volgare.....
quali sono in inglese, se ci sono,  le frasi idiomatiche che stanno per :
fare le cose da cani.....
(non volgari, e anche volgari) ?
ciao

 (non volgari, e anche volgari) ?
M'interessa che in italiano se fai le cose da cani le fai male. Non abbiamo
frasi identiche che si trattino di cani. Invece, spesso il cane e' da
invidiare!
You old dog, you! (You've been up to something, I can tell.)
You lucky dog! (I envy you.) (also "Lucky duck")
It's a dog's life. (La vita e' bella!) o (La vita e' brutta! :)
I work like a dog and I get nothing. (I work hard (but well), and get
little in return.)
It's a dog-eat-dog world. (You have to fight to get along, and watch out
for enemies.)
I'm dog-tired. (Very tired.)
Well I'll be dog-gone! (I am very surprised.)
It's raining cats and dogs (and there are poodles in the street). (It's
raining very hard and there are puddles in the street.)
As for not doing something well... I've never done anything badly, so I
don't know these expressions. :) VBSEG
Seriously, I have to dress for dinner right now, so let me fill my stomach
and then my head will come up with the second part.
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 Seriously, I have to dress for dinner right now
Do you mean that you want to change your clothes or that you only get
dressed to dine.
Bye, FB
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mi fa venire i conati.
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Mi piacciono moltissimo i gatti.  Hanno il sapore di pollo.
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 Mi piacciono moltissimo i gatti.  Hanno il sapore di pollo.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Ciao, FB
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 ciao
 
L'hai fatto da cani!
	non volgari
	You really botched that one.
	Man, you really messed that up.
	volgari
	Man, you really f...ed that up!
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 Ho la faccia rossa per due motivi:  il riso e la vergogna.
But "riso" is white! *
* "Riso" is either "laughters" or "rice".
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 dressed to dine.
I had to put clothes on. I was invited out to dinner, so I couldn't wear
what I was wearing (my "Italian wife-beater" as they're called here.)
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 Mi piacciono moltissimo i gatti.  Hanno il sapore di pollo.
E' pazzesco! E non e' vero. Hanno il sapore di cane.
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 	Man, you really f...ed that up!
I agree, from this side of the Equator.
Also, "You really screwed up." (mezzo volgare)
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 Bye, FB
Già lo sapevo, ma dissi che mi faceva ridere.  Non dovrebb'essere
stato nessun'ambiguità.  Non mi romperle...
:-)
:-D
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You're on this side of the equator, too?  All this time I
thought you were on the other side.
Reminds me of a commercial I heard on the radio one time (I don't
even remember now what the product was).  A very young girl,
talking to her somewhat older brother:  Are you the opposite
sex, or am I?
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 thought you were on the other side.
Well, no, um, *you're* on the other side. I'm on *this* side (ie, *that*
side, to you.) :) You're upside-down. I'm right-side-up.
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E' pazzesco! E non e' vero. Hanno il sapore di cane.
Nemmeno questo è vero. Il sapore è simile al coniglio. Infatti è
capitato che alcuni ristoranti fossero messi sotto sequestro per aver
usato carne di gatto da servire come coniglio. Non ricorso se fossero
nel vicentino. :)
Qualcuno mi disse che il cane, invece, ha un sapore simile al
capriolo.
Sebastiano

 Nemmeno questo è vero. Il sapore è simile al coniglio.
LOL
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 raining very hard and there are puddles in the street.)
thank you Joey, you're precious !

 what I was wearing (my "Italian wife-beater" as they're called here.)
I'm trying to picture Ketzl in his tux.
At 
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=tux
I read that a "tuxedo" is a "semiformal evening dress for men". Well, if a
tuxedo (don't ask me why we call it "smoking"...) is semiformal *, I fail
to see what is very formal. Perhaps an ermine coat and a crown...
* even if I know you wear it far more than we do in Italy.
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 to see what is very formal. Perhaps an ermine coat and a crown...
I consider it formal, even though it's considerd semi-formal. Formal is, I
guess, white tie and tails; semi-formal is black tie and tuxedo. Since I
will most likely never attend an event where white tie is required, black
tie is *my* formal.
Speaking of smoking: the wedding I went to over the weekend was of a Danish
bride. When she was making plans for the wedding, she received a lot of
inquiries from her Danish family (in Denmark) who wanted to know if the
Bride and Groom were going to "come in Smoking." We had quite a laugh,
picturing the Bride and Groom coming into the chapel with long cigarette
holders, puffing away. :)
You call it "smoking" which is short for "smoking jacket," which
technically it isn't, (a smoking jacket is different here) but that's all I
know about it.
As for ermine coats and crowns only a very, very few of us get to wear
those. :)
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 Bye, FB
If I'm not mistaken, when one simply says "tuxedo" it refers to
either a dinner jacket or a smoking jacket and black tie.  If this
is considered semi formal, then I suppose formal would be white tie
and tails.
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What about "frac", or is it uncommon? There's a Modugno song, "L'uomo
in frac", about a man in a tuxedo, I think.
Joe from Massachusetts


If you ask me, this last one has nothing to do with dogs, but is a
substitute for ***damn, just like gosh darn.
Joe from Massachusetts

 nel vicentino. :)
Attenti, vecio, non si sa mai se lurki qualche magnagato
(o quasi-magnagato come mi).   :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

in frac", about a man in a tuxedo, I think.
Veeery formal. Occasioni mondane. Non è comune.
Sebastiano

(o quasi-magnagato come mi).   :>)
I was merely reporting an old news. ;)
I am not the one who busted them. :)
Sebastiano

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, FB typed:
: "Buscare" is a false friend for those who know Spanish:
Also Mr. Columbus used to describe his plans as "buscar el levante por el
poniente".
Ciao
jacopo
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 poniente".
Colombo! I can hardly stand that Lieutenant Colombo in American is
Lieutenant ColUmbo!
Ciao, FB
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It's a dog-eat-dog world.
Also "It's a doggy dog world"
bye
gfc

 Also "It's a doggy dog world"
It's very funny you should say that; I had never heard that version before
except from an Italian friend of mine from Foggia. She always says it that
way, and we all smile and think it's very cute, as an adaptation of the
original phrase. Is this common to you?
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