Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: That way

Peggiy: "...It'd be doubly cruel if he laughed and then found out that 
it's true."
George: "Well,at least he'd get a laugh out of it that way!"
Mi potete spiegare il senso di quello che dice George? e sopratutto 
molte volte vedo quel "That way" alla fine di frasi...cosa vuol dire!
Grazie

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A naso e senza dizionario:
"Beh, cosě almeno ci riderebbe sopra" ("(in) that way" ==> "in/a quel
modo")
Spero di non aver detto sciocchezze.
Ciao, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

Spero di non aver detto sciocchezze.
Qualche volta in italiano, si puň dire semplicemente "cosě"?
Per esempio:
I don't want to do it that way.
Non voglio farlo cosě.

 Non voglio farlo cosě.
si :)
indica per l'appunto il modo

 Non voglio farlo cosě.
Yes. For some reason, you don't seem to have one word to say "cosě": "like
that", "(in) that way" (literally "a/in quel modo"). Well, "so" is one
word, but it can't be always used.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Gli americani sono ignoranti per loro stessa natura",
that is "The Americans are naturally ignorant"
(Paolo Bonardi's opinion on it.cultura.linguistica -
http://snipurl.com/7ryg
)

 For some reason, you don't seem to have one word to say "cosě"
There's "thus", but it's very formal.
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Mary

 There's "thus", but it's very formal.
I rarely heard it replacing hence/therefore but never used as "this way" :-)
well I learned something I didn't know :)

 word, but it can't be always used.
I've also heard the expression "like so!" spoken by an American. And
another one, "there!" which seems to be very similar to our "là!"
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 There's "thus", but it's very formal.
C'è anche "thusly", in questo foro usato dalla regina Bambi.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=thusly
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Xakero

 
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=thusly
Mah. Forse lo usano gli americani...
E' già un avverbio, non serve aggiungere "-ly".
-- 
Mary

 Ciao, FB
No, questa volta no. :)
-- 
Pear pea a chair, Ray. Core Reggie eel me oh eat alien, oh... :)
Joey DoWop, working on a temporary account.

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Mai! Mai! Mai! Bambi non si abbasserebbe mai all'uso di un americanismo,
neanche nei suoi più brutti sogni. (Ma allora, perché i dizionari
britannici non elencano "thusly", mentre quelli americano lo fanno?)
Sì, è vero che "thus" è già un avverbio. "Thusly" sembra, infatti, una
aberrazione americana.
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Xakero

 Mah. Forse lo usano gli americani...
Magari. Quelli che dicono anche "irregardless", ecc. :)
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 E' già un avverbio, non serve aggiungere "-ly".
Avevo chiesto informazioni in merito, infatti. È come se esistesse
"prestamente" oltre a "presto" (ora arriva qualcuno che: 1) cita
Shakespeare o qualche altro grandissimo che usa "thusly"; 2) mi dice che
"prestamente" esiste davvero).
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:46:09 +0200, Mary Cassidy wrote:
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I hadn't thought of that. In "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is
written "The points stand thus: [...]". 
Bye, FB
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 written... 
In "HP..." it says...
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Mary

 britannici non elencano "thusly", mentre quelli americano lo fanno?)
A parte il fatto che Bambi ha vissuto negli USA, "thusly" è in genere
usato in modo scherzoso, e il suo modo di scrivere è spesso scherzoso.
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Mary

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That's what I was thinking. A bit mocking, perhaps, but scherzoso.
Also, to be sure, when I hear someone say "thusly" it's usually as a joke.
Except in the case of those people who, as I mentioned earlier, say things
like "irregardless"; or this classic, from a VP of Development where I
worked once: "If you have any questions, please call, and either my
secretary or myself will be happy to assist you."
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 secretary or myself will be happy to assist you."
It took me some seconds too many to point out the mistake.
Bye, FB
-- 
Locked from the inside. That can only mean one thing, and I don't know what
it is.
(Murder by Death)

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I wrote it deliberately to boot.
Bye, FB
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Se dico "siedi!" manca l'oggetto.
Siedo chi? Lei o me?
(da it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

 It took me some seconds too many to point out the mistake.
Not many of his colleagues caught it, but all of us (the "underlings) did!
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Rarely thus, rarer still (if ever) "thusly".
«The adverb thusly was created in the 19th century as an alternative
for thus in sentences such as Hold it thus or He put it thus. It
appears to have been first used by humorists, who may have been
echoing the speech of poorly educated people straining to sound
stylish. »
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0282.html
We are not all striving to be stylish here, Mary.   :>)
Joe from Massachusetts