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Some items do not necessarily constitute Frequently Asked Questions as such, but have been included in the belief that they may be of interest.
To all who enter in, Welcome.
What is it.cultura.linguistica.inglese?
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Since its founding, the group has become affectionately known as The Illuminated Realm , and it is our belief that one of our most endearing trademarks is the noticeable absence of arguments, flames, and general ill-will. Which is not to say members do not sometimes hold dissenting views on subjects, merely that we are able to maintain a pleasantly agreeable level of tolerance and decorum when expressing such. We sincerely hope your participation in the group will be in keeping with this spirit.
It is a newsgroup open to all who are interested in the English language; a place to write about and discuss this interest, ask questions, seek linguistic clarification and generally enjoy yourself. (Needless to say, humour is never out of place).
The newsgroup’s home page can be found at:
Thanks for this permanent residence is owed to our most gallant Knight In Shining Armour, Peltio. (Also on the group’s homepage, you will find photographs of some of the members of The Illuminated Realm who held their first real-life gathering in October 1999, in Bologna).
Questions relating to grammar, explanations of English phrases/words, discussions of English literature or indeed any matter having to do with English are welcome. Topics which could cause heated debates on matters not related to English (i.e. politics), are not encouraged however.
Basic Netiquette
First Rule of Usenet: Read the FAQ for whatever groups you're trying to start participating in. Since you're reading this, you're already ahead of the game. Congratulations: not everyone does this. Understanding the information contained herein will save you (and the denizens of the newsgroup) some headaches.
Second Rule of Usenet: After you've read the FAQ, lurk. Read the group you want to participate in without posting for a while. How long is "a while"? Six months. If you can't wait six months, wait twelve. Seriously, this piece of advice is group-specific, but the spirit ispretty useful to remember – in all truthfulness, everything you're going to ask has probably been asked before. Watching the patterns in the newsgroup will let you see this for yourself. Moreover, reading the newsgroup for a period of time without posting will help you get a feel for what the group is like as a social entity.
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"Current" contains articles dating back a few weeks, whereas "Old" goes back to the start of the archive in 1995.
From time to time in various posts within the group, you will come across the following ‘in-house’ acronyms and might wonder what they mean. Since coming to grips with the English language is an arduous enough task in itself, we thought to clarify at least this mystery for you here.
ICLI = it.cultura.linguistica.italiano; a sister newsgroup to our own focusing on the Italian language
ICLIng = it.cultura.linguistica.inglese a.k.a. The Illuminated Realm
K.I.S.A. = Knight in Shining Armour. There are many in the Realm.
HTH = Hope this Helps
IIRC = If I recall correctly
IMHO = In my humble opinion [Variation: IMNSHO = In my not so humble opinion]
IT = In topic
LOL = Laughing out loud
OT = Off topic
RL = Real Life
ROTF[LOL] = Rolling on the floor [laughing out loud]
ROTFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off
TIA = Thanks in advance
URL= Universal Resource Locator – in other words, an address for a Web Site
http://www.utopiasw.demon.co.uk/acronyms.htm
Where does Mary Cassidy get her great taglines from?
The answer to the question is a semi-trade secret. (Hint: Search Engines – See below)
(When the tagline includes a gentleman by the name of Tom, please note that these are known as ‘Tom Swifties’. Also note that once Mary has finished with the aforementioned gentleman, IsabellaZ and Bambi – in that order – have requested the pleasure of the gentleman’s company for their own delectations)
The signature which appears at the end of Isabella Z’s posts is of unknown origin. It was sent to her by a friend who also has not the vaguest notion where it comes from. It is believed to be a verse from a song. If you are able to give a creditable source for it, the group – not to mention HRH Isabella – would be eternally grateful and would very much welcome hearing from you.
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Additionally, the following news server from the University of Berlin, which provides access to over 20,000 news groups, has proved a useful alternative for a number of our posters:
The header/subject of your e-mail should be ‘Registration’. And in the body of the message simply state your name and your e-mail address. You will receive confirmation from them of your username and password within 24 hours. The service is free.
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www.yahoo.com
www.infind.com
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www.northernlights.com
www.looksmart.com
www.google.com
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www.arianna.com
www.virgilio.com
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www.metacrawler.com
4. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE6. WHERE CAN I FIND ONLINE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSES?For matters relating specifically to English and The English Language, we include the following suggestions of useful sites and references. It bears repeating that you are welcome to post your questions to the group, but if your question is likely to have been asked before, you may first want to check the following which might have the answer you want.
Looking for an additional forum where you can learn English?
misc.education.language.englishis a newsgroup devoted to the teaching of English (especially as a second language).The meaning of an Acronym?
The following Web site has a searchable list of over 144,000 acronyms, initilisms and abbreviations:A list of False Friends?www.acronymfinder.comThis one, called Babel, contains a shorter list of computer related acronyms all on one page that you can easily download for off-line browsing:http://www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/kopien/babel.htmlThere is also The Network Dictionary of Acronyms:http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.htmlA very useful list of false friends can be found at: English Grammar
http://www.infotrad.demon.co.u k
Additionally, a list is also included on our home page. Just follow the link (to be enabled soon).
Actually 'soon', in aldebaranian time.An Elementary Grammar at the English Institute’s Web site offers help for beginners, intermediate and advanced students: English Verbshttp://www.englishinstitute.co.uk:591/guest_book/default.htm From the Digital Education Network, the rules, plus a clinic and practice pages:
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm More grammar exercises, quizzes, lessons, chat rooms and links:
http://www.eslpartyland.com Covering many forms of English grammar with an emphasis on Business English:
http://www.better-english.com/grammar.htm A grammar reference and exercise site. For entry levels of ESL classes.
http://www.clta.on.ca/grammar.htm The basics, thoroughly explained.
http://vweb1.hiway.co.uk/ei/intro.html San Francisco State University ESL site.
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/%7Efunweb/ Online English grammar.
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammat/index.cfm The following site provides links on the web to help with English grammar.
http://www.geocities.com/Atehns/Parthenon/2962/grammar/ Verb charts: Phrasal Verbshttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/84.html Everything you always wanted to know about verbs but were afraid to ask:
http://www.gsu.edu/ ~ wwwesl/egw/jones-html Online exercises using verbs:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html Complete verb tense reviews, designed for intermediate and advanced English learners:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html English verb tenses:
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/class.pages/Structure1/tenses Complete description of non-continuous verbs and verb tense irregularities in English:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/types.html Irregular verb chart for students of English:
http://members.home.net/englishzone/study/verbchrt.html More help with those irregular verbs:
http://www.gsu.edu/ ~ wwwesl/egw/grlist.htm. A list of the most common English phrasal verbs:http://www.eflnet.com/pverbs.htmThe ESL Cafe offers a wealth of information for English learners including a list of phrasal verbs: P.S. Words, words, wordshttp://www.eslcafe.com/pv/ For those who like exploring the subtleties and ironies of the English language may we suggest a visit to the following sites:Richard Lederer’s home page. " Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls." If you’re interested in the peculiarities of the English Language, this site is highly recommended.
www.pw1.netcom.com/ ~ rlederer/index.htmCommon Errors in English. A site featuring many confusing words and pairs such as affect/effect, adapt/adopt, advice/advise, altogether/all together, etc. 5. DICTIONARIES/REFERENCEhttp://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words looking at new words and the reappearance of old ones.
http://www.quinion.demon.co.uk/words/ The Word Detective features a large archive in which Evan Morris answers questions on origins of colourful words and phrases.
http://www.word-detective.com Foreigners take their best shot at the English language. A site featuring some interesting translations gone slightly awry.
http://hearsay.simplenet.com/translation/index.htm Where can I find an online dictionary for…?
A general-purpose dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate: British/American Dictionarieshttp://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
A versions of an unabridged dictionary published early in the twentieth century by the company that is now Merriam-Webster has been issued by Project Gutenberg. The version is in HTML format (45 Mb when unzipped). And is available from:ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext96. It can also be found on the Web at:http://promo.net/pg/
The following Cambridge dictionariesInternational Dictionary of English are available at the address:
Learner's Dictionary
Dictionary of American English
International Dictionary of Idioms
International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbshttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/
The Macquarie dictionary is accessible online at:http://www.dict.mq.edu.au/
Free, downloadable dictionaries:http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8180
Onelook – Another valuable source searches over 500 dictionaries at one time:http://www.onelook.com
English and foreign dictionaries can be found at:http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Babylon is a downloadable dictionary that lies under every application and uses an OCR system to capture the words to be translated (Be aware that the last version is spyware, actually it is stated in the contract you accept before installing. So now you know it).http://www.babylon.com/
Once you have downloaded the main program you can access the twelve language databases online or you can download the dictionaries (several MB each) you prefer (English and Italian, for example) from this address
http://www.babylon.com/download/index.html
Babylon is a one way dictionary: it can translate only from English to other languagesTo help you understand the differences between British English and American English:
Brit-Speak:English-Italian, Italian-English Dictionaries
http://pages.prodigy.com/NY/NYC/britspk/main.htmlThe American-British British-American Dictionary:
http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionaryEnglish (British)-American Dictionary:
http://www.libertynet.org/~bgmap/us-uk.htmlThe Internet Dictionary Project, featuring downloadable files:Alternative Dictionaries :
http://www.june29.com/IDP/A free, multilingual database is available from:
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishItalian/From the Dutch Dictionary Project:
http://www.freedict.com/dictionary/index.htmlA large source of language dictionaries:
http://www.logos.it/index.html
Not for those who are easily offended, this site features ‘alternative’ dictionaries in many languages: Specialised Dictionaries: (See also Section 10. Translation: Useful sites for translators)
http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/From Agriculture to Textiles a site featuring specialised, technical dictionaries and much more:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction4.htmlSlang: American Slang A very impressive site, the following offers 870 monolingual, bilingual and multilingual resources in the form of either downloadable or online dictionaries including detective slang, casing and packing industry terms, flower names, a cat fanciers glossary, silicon valley slang, model aeroplane jargon and much more besides. Definitely worth a visit.
http://www.jump.net/~fdietz/glossary.htmThe above mentioned Onelook site is also a valuable aid also for technical translators, since it provides at a glance several occurrences of a technical term in different contexts.
British Slang American Slanguages. "Talk like the locals in cities in America. The hick to hip translation guide".
http://www.slanguage.comAustralian Slang A dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms currently used in the UK.
http://www.peevish.u-net.com/slangSlang and colloquialisms currently used in Britain with a focus on Manchester and the North of England. With a searchable database.
http://www.page27.co.uk/tedA comprehensive list of Slang to English & English to Slang tables with examples of correct usage.
http://www.accessv.com/~alderton/slang
Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary A collection of Australian slang, sayings and phrases, from the old, disappearing traditional words, to the present day.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Breakers/8092/ozslang.htm
A Collection of Australian slang with translations into American and English.
http://people.enternet.com.au/ ~ goeldner
Quotations Roget's Thesaurus is available from:
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/text/roget/thesaurusThesaurus Com, as the name implies, is another online source:
http://www.thesaurus.com/5.1 Dictionaries/References – Print John Bartlett’s classic "collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. This ninth edition contains over 9,000 quotations from Hesiod and Plutarch, through Chaucer and Thomas à Kempis, up to the contemporary statesmen of the day"
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/Solo Inglese
English-Italian
– Dizionari completi su CD e in formato cartaceo – Minidizionari su CD con la pronuncia
Dizionario Picchi Ed. Hoepli Fernando Picchi
"Grande Dizionario, con CD-ROM"
Ulrico Hoepli Editore – 1999
Prima Edizione
3328 pp.175 000 voci, 500 000 vocaboli composti e derivati
Flessioni di nomi, verbi, aggettivi e avverbi con inrregolarità
Attributi di numerabilità di tutti i sostantivi inglesi
Indicazione di sinonimi e contrariAppendice:
– Numeri cardinali, Numeri ordinali, Segni matematici
– Conversione di unità di misura, Elementi chimici
CD-ROM contenente l'intero dizionario che non richiede installazioneCommenti: Il programma di consultazione è molto lento nel caricarsi. A ogni ricerca bisogna chiudere le ultime finestre aperte, cosa che diventa fastidiosa se si vogliono cercare più parole in sequenza. Non c'è una funzione di completamento della parola o di proposta di parole simili.
Copertina bruttissima.
Dizionario Ragazzini – Ed. Zanichelli
Giuseppe Ragazzini
Dizionario Inglese Italiano Italiano Inglese
Terza edizione, 1998
2400 ppdisponibile in versione cartacea, in versione cartacea + CD-ROM e solo in CD-ROM.
138 000 voci, 237 000 accezioni,
4 800 sigle, simboli e abbreviazioni, 3 000 nomi propri e toponimi
32 tavole illustrate in quadricromia con 198 illustrazioni e didascalie bilingui relative a: Agricoltura, Anatomia umana, Architettura, Scienze della Terra e energia, sistema solare, Sport, Trasporti.
– Dizionari solo su CD Dizionario 'speakerato' (sic) Garzanti È equivalente a un dizionario in formato ridotto.
– Dizionari solo cartacei DizioROM Microsoft Include: il Dizionario Enciclopedico Rizzoli, il Dizionario dei sinonimi e contrari, il Dizionario inglese-italiano/italiano-inglese, il Dizionario delle sentenze latine e greche, l'Atlante geografico Encarta in versione compatta e il Dizionario delle citazioni. All'interno è possibile trovare clip multimediali, immagini e animazioni. Inoltre per il fatto di essere un prodotto di mamma microsoft DizioRom (si dice) può essere richiamato da qualsiasi applicazione.
Dalle informazioni a nostra disposizione comunque si tratta di una versione non recente che non ha subito gli aggiornamenti degli altri prodotti microsoft, come l'altlante e l'enciclopedia Encarta.
Dizionario Picchi
Lo si è trovato in edicola per un breve periodo (la prima settimana di Marzo 2000) associato alla vendita del quotidiano La Repubblica. Con un sovraprezzo di sole 18900. Forse lo si può trovare nei remainders centers oppure facendo richiesta all'editore per una copia arretrata.
Dizionario Ragazzini
Può essere acquistato anche il solo CD-ROM.
Dizionario Hazon – Ed. Garzanti I Grandi Dizionari Garzanti: Hazon Inglese
2688 pagine
340 000 voci e accezioni
58 000 termini specialistici (scientifici, tecnici, economici, giuridici e di informatica)
2200 Phrasal verbs
2000 citazioni d'autore
4300 termini e locuzioni americane
2600 sigle, abbreviazioni e acronimi
trascrizione fonetica e divisione sillabica.
informazioni di costume, storia, cultura70 tavole a colori e in bianco e nero con 2500 vocaboli settoriali 11 appendici (verbi irregolari, nomi propri, cognomi, nomi geografici, nomenclature scientifiche, unità di misura...)
glossario dei termini informatici e di internet con tavole illustrate
include un CD-ROM: un minidizionario visuale che non richiede installazione.
***Dizionario – Ed. Sansoni
info wanted
Altri dizionari e riferimenti Dizionari tecnici/specialistici American Heritage Dictionary – The Voice of America La terza edizione, solo in CD-ROM si trova a un prezzo decisamente basso, con sole trentamila lire vi potete portare a casa un dizionario di inglese americano con la pronuncia di tutti i termini principali oltre a un dizionario di sinonimi e contrari e un dizionario etimologico.
200 000 vocaboli
definizione completa, pronuncia, ortografia, fraseologia, categoria grammaticale, divisione in sillabe, declinazione, espressioni idiomatiche, uso, omografi, etimologiaContiene inoltre:
Un dizionario ragionato di sinonimi e contrari con una base di oltre 1 500 000 parole The Roget's Thesaurus Che contiene espressioni relative a: la bibbia, letteratura, medicina e salute, filosofia e religione, storia del mondo, storia americana, affari ed economia, scienze fisiche e matematiche. The dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Oltre 8000 schede biografiche e più di 13000 nomi geografici.Commenti: L'interfaccia è particolarmente efficiente (a differenza di quella di certi programmi italiani…) e permette il taglia e incolla (anche questo a differenza di certi programmi italiani…). Gira anche sotto Windows 3.1
Non fatevelo scappare! È un must.Collins COBUILD
CO llins B irmingham University I nternationaL D atabase
Helping learners with real English.
1703 pp.
70000 references
90000 examples– detailed treatment to the most frequent 2000 words in English
– every definition is explained with a sentence in order to show essential grammar, and to avoid the codes, symbols and brackets that make other dictionary difficult to use
– an extra column gives detailed grammatical information about how each sense of each word can be used
– the last edition contains information on how frequently a word appears in the English languageAvailable with CD-ROM
Collins Millennium
Collins English Dictionary
Millennium Edition, 1998
1824 pp.180 000 lemmi, 196 000 accezioni,
16 000 lemmi nuovi o aggiornati
18 500 voci enciclopediche
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
A.S. Hornby
63000 references
65000 definitions
90000 examples
11600 idioms and phrasal verbsFull coverage of American English and pronunciation and 16 colour pages presenting information on cultural topics such as the American legal system and constitution.
Available with CD-ROM
Webster
Webster's New World Dictionary of American English
Third College edition
1574 pages
170.000 entries
11.000 American words and phrases
McGrawHill Zanichelli Il McGraw Hill Zanichelli – small size – con CD-ROM
Dizionario enciclopedico scientifico
inglese-italiano (italiano-inglese solo rimando al termine inglese)
seconda edizione
Zanichelli, 1998
2240 pp.105 000 lemmi ordinati alfabeticamente e tradotti in italiano nel linguaggio della scienza e della tecnica
129 000 traduzioni italiane
122 000 definizioni enciclopediche riprodotte dalla seconda edizione del "McGrawHill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms"
102 settori specialistici dell'astronomia, biologia, chimica, fisica, geologia, ingegneria, matematica, medicina
3000 illustrazioniCommento : Completo nella parte inglese, la parte italiana è solo un rimando alle definizioni inglesi. Contiene solo termini in inglese US.
L'Espresso lo ha messo in vendita due CDROM che riproducevano il CDROM allegato all'opera, al prezzo di 24900 l'uno. Forse riuscite a trovarli come numeri arretratiMarolli
Marolli
" "
tredicesima edizione
– , 1996Disponibile in versione cartacea con CD-ROM o solo in CD-ROM
Il CD-ROM funziona su MS-DOS
1872 pp.195.000 voci complessive
42 tavole fuori testo rappresentanti i vari settori della tecnicaCommenti : Rispetto al McGraw Hill, il Marolli contiene più termini generici ed è veramente un dizionario italiano-inglese, inglese-italiano (non di tipo enciclopedico). L'originale orientamento alla meccanica lo rende meno adatto per materie come elettronica, informatica e telecomunicazioni.
Non sempre spiega quali termini sono in inglese UK e quali sono US.
Gould-Chiampo
Dizionario enciclopedico di medicina Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese
a cura di Luigi Chiampo, tratto dal Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary
edito da McGraw-Hill (New York).
Zanichelli, 1988
2274 pp.78 000 voci con 84 000 definizioni e 26 tavole anatomiche a colori.
Delfino Lanciotti Liguri Stefani
Giovanni Delfino, Eudes Lanciotti, Gianfranco Liguri, Massimo Stefani
"Medicina e Biologia. Medicine & Biology"
Dizionario enciclopedico di Scienze mediche e Biologiche e di Biotecnologie Italiano Inglese Inglese Italiano
Zanichelli, 1997
2144 pp.Sezione italiano inglese: 41 000 voci, 45 000 accezioni,
70 settori specialistici, oltre 80 illustrazioni.
Sezione inglese italiano: 48 000 voci.
Appendici: sigle e simboli internazionali; grandezze, costanti e unità di misura; dati chimico-fisici; dati fisiologici, biochimici e nutrizionali; classificazioni biologiche.Economics & Business
Fernando Picchi
"Il Nuovo Economics & Business"
Dizionario enciclopedico economico e commerciale Ing-Ita, Ita-Ing
seconda edizione
Zanichelli,1990
1600 pp.52 000 voci.
Tavole bilingui di nomenclatura.
Dizionario di base in 5 lingue. Monete. Unità di misura.Language & Business
Fernando Picchi
"Language & Business"
Dizionario Ing-Ita, Ita-Ing economico commerciale e di lingua moderna
Zanichelli, 1993
1792 pp.sezione inglese-italiano 20 000 voci e 39 000 accezioni
sezione italiano-inglese 22 000 voci e 47 000 accezioniLaw and Commerce
"West's Law & Commercial Dictionary"
Dizionario giuridico e commerciale
Inglese-Italiano, Francese, Spagnolo, Tedesco, Italiano-Inglese.
1998, Zanichelli/West.
1856 pp.Oltre 17 000 voci
Informatica
Otto Vollnhals
"Dizionario di Informatica"
terza edizione
1996 (?) Gruppo Editoriale Jackson20.000 voci
4 lingue (EN-FR-IT-DE)
Dizionari Visuali American Slang Richard A. Spears
"AMERICAN SLANG Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions"
Zanichelli/National Textbook Company, 1989
544 pp10 000 definizioni di 8500 voci e locuzioni gergali nell'inglese d'America
L'inglese in America
I. Ferrero – G. Anglesio
"L'inglese in America"
Dizionario di slang – eufemismi – espressioni colloquiali non ortodosse e proibite
Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese
Mursia 1991
861 pp.9000 vocaboli e 20.000 citazioni (d'autore, da enciclopedie, riviste, giornali, film, dizionari)
American Idioms
Richard A. Spears
"AMERICAN IDIOMS Dictionary of everyday expressions of contemporary American English"
Zanichelli/National Textbook Company, 1988
460 pp.Oltre 8000 espressioni idiomatiche frequentemente usate nell'inglese americano:
frasi gergali, convenzionali, proverbiali, formali e informali
con indicazioni che ne chiariscono il senso, commenti, indicazioni sull'uso ed esempiOdd Pairs & False Friends
Virginia Browne, Elena Mendes, Gabriele Natali
"Odd Pairs & False Friends"
Dizionario di false analogie e ambigue affinità tra inglese ed italiano
199x, Zanichelli
272 pp.nella sezione inglese: 1000 coppie di voci inglesi e italiane suddivise per accezione e ordinate alfabeticamente, norme d'uso e segnalazioni linguistiche, spiegazioni e commenti, esempi tradotti.
nella sezione italiana: 1000 voci italiane con rimando alla corrispondente voce ingleseMore & More False friends, Bugs and Bugbears
Virginia Browne, Elena Mendes, Gabriele Natali
"More & More False Friends. Bugs & Bugbears"
Dizionario di ambigue affinità e tranelli nella traduzione fra Inglese e Italiano
con Word Games
Zanichelli, 1995
432 pp.Oltre 1300 coppie di voci inglesi e italiane
circa 180 Word Games
Dizionario Visuale Italiano-Inglese a cura di Jean-Claude Corbeil e Ariane Archambault
Trad. di Studio Zelig, rivista da A. Suvero
Zanichelli, 1998
928 pp.3500 immagini a colori, 50 000 nomi
Duden Inglese Italiano
Dizionario illustrato Inglese e Italiano.
Pictorial English & Italian Dictionary
a cura delle redazioni del Duden e della Oxford University Press
Zanichelli, 1995
872 pp.384 tavole, 28 000 voci inglesi e altrettante italiane.
7. PRONUNCIATION A useful, free site for those who are just starting out learning English is: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6403/
The English Page – Free Online English Lessons is good Internet resource for intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language.http://www.englishpage.com
Multimedia online ESL course from PlanetEnglish.The TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links page also features links to other sites offering courses http://www.planetenglish.com http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/
Infotech , from the Cambridge University Press, is a comprehensive course for intermediate level learners who need to be able to understand and use the English of computing for study and work.http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/infotech/index.htm
Where can I hear English pronunciation online? 8. PHONETICS
The English Listening Lounge . Recordings (in Real Audio format) of English speakers. How to pronounce ‘ ghoti’ and why.http://www.EnglishListening.com
There is a dictionary with pronunciation sound files at:http://www.allwords.com/
Don't forget the poem that Martin has read for you. It's here, on our very pages.
Remember Bernard Shaw's word ghoti with the ghfrom laugh , the o from women and the tifrom nation and pronounced 'fish'? R. Beard offers a full explanation of this linguistic oddity which has appeared on the group a number of times http://www.yourdictionary.com/phono.html
The standard way to represent pronunciation is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Their home page is:http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html A list of the ASCII version of the IPA symbols is available from one of The Realm’s own gallant hommes featuring all the symbols necessary for English and Italian in both IPA and ASCII IPA, with examples.http://www.powerup.com.au/~rmottare/ipa.htm
9. WHERE CAN I FIND ENGLISH MOVIES?
Those of you who own a time machine, can travel back in time three or four years and re-live the wonders of the programme which used to air on Sunday nights on RaiTre "Movies: i film come non li avete mai sentiti". Failing which, you could complain to the programme schedulers of the major television networks who seem to think that a repeat of a television series from the seventies is of greater value than showing a film in its original language. But we digress.
The only solution for those wishing to view films in English is to purchase a satellite kit. Sad but true.
At the cinema
Some cinemas make it a practice to show films in their original language on a regular basis. Your local newspaper would be the best source for finding out if you are fortunate enough to live in an area with a cinema under such enlightened management.
At your local library
Some libraries are furnished with multi-media sectors complete with music CD’s, videotapes and DVD. Among these, some even have films in their original language. Unfortunately not many are as enlightened, however it is certainly worth asking to find out.
10. LITERATURE ONLINE
Akamac
Among other things, Marx's Das Kapital is available in English and English-German bilingual versions, in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file-format. This site also includes an extensive, alphabetically-sorted directory of online e-text resources of all sorts.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"The scope of documents in this collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy." This extensive literature archive site is distinguished by the ability to generate on-the-fly Portable Document Format or .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files which can be (to a limited extent) custom-formatted online and then downloaded for later reading and printing.
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
"Builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers world-wide."
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu
A G-7 global information society pilot project whose main objective is to make the major works of the world's scientific and cultural heritage accessible to the public.
A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors (including a biography on each author listed) from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format.
A searchable and browseable database-directory of online electronic texts covering a broad range of interests, from established literary classics to computer how-to manuals.
Be warned however that of their current database of 11,301 books, 575 only have ‘Sample Chapters’, i.e. not the entire book.
Bookvalley
A library of classic novels, literatures, and fictions online. Including the Tarzan Series and the immortal Sherlock Holmes.
The British Library
Digital Library
CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library
An extensive link resource, listing texts archived at various locations all across the Internet. Features a searchable database.
An extensive archive of Middle-English electronic texts (none of which are translated into modern English, however), including works by Chaucer and the ubiquitous Anonymous.
A growing selection of downloadable, online books in both English and Italian.
http://members.xoom.it/cyberbooks/
Portal for digital books available online, with thousands of books to read for free.
Internet Classics Archive
Repository of searchable works of classical literature. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
The Internet Public Library
Online public library for the Internet community. Includes directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials; plus special sections for youth and teens.
Online Books
Directory of over 11,000 books that can be freely read on the Internet.
An evolving digital library of ancient Greek and Latin texts, ancient art and architecture, secondary sources, and links maintained by Tufts University.
Progetto Liber-Liber
Il progetto Liber Liber ha per scopo la realizzazione della versione elettronica, e certificata, di centinaia di classici della letteratura in lingua italiana, gratuitamente prelevabili via Internet.
Project Gutenberg Index
"Project Gutenberg selects etexts targeted a bit on the "bang for the buck" philosophy… we choose etexts we hope extremely large portions of the audience will want and use frequently."
Shakespeare Stack Project
Macintosh hyperCard editions of the works of William Shakespeare, with annotations.
"Contains a collection of electronic texts including the entire Sherlock Holmes canon…" which is really why the link is here…
Contains classic literature in HTML format. Authors include Twain, Shelley and Dickens. New authors are added monthly.
Vision of the Artists
1258 classical fiction and non-fiction e-books. 460 authors linked to 1258 author titles of classic literature.
Washington University Library – Electronic Texts & Documents
Amazing depth of historical subjects available. An impressively large list of what’s available on the Internet.
11 LEISURE ONLINE
Want to find your favourite song's lyrics? Ever wondered what Dr. Frankesteeen said to Igor in "Young Frankenstein"? Here are a few links to help you out…Some places where you could find that the love song you like the most is the last incoherent cry of a freaking psycho:
http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm
http://songfile.snap.com/
Three places where you will find the scripts of your favourite movies, or even the original screenplays (check out Bladerunner, Young Frankenstein, and Pulp Fiction)
Trailers, in English, of the latest releases to be shown at the cinema can be found at the first of the following sites (updated every Friday), and the second link offers many interviews with stars of the silver screen:
The Realm has more than a few die-hard comic enthusiasts, so…Wanna read a few stories featuring Donald Duck in its mother tongue? Go on and help yourself:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5038/kites01.htm
http://www.mhk.lu.se/home/murry/Moc20/africaframe.html
http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/comics/Censored/AtomBomb/Pagina1.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/blumarine/14/loot01.htm
http://www.hamlco.com/gladstone/boatmen/boatmen1.html
The choice of English radio stations available over the Internet is quite staggering. In order to hear them however, you will first need to install a plug-in (if you don’t already have one, of course). Arguably the most popular and available free of charge is Real Player:
Once you have installed the correct plug-in you can go and look for the radio broadcasting station in the city you most like
TV over the net
This section needs you! Share your knowledge with The Realmers. Come visit us on the NewsGroup and tell us how to get the most out of our old PCs. For the time being content yourselves with
12. TRANSLATION: Information and Resources for Translators
provides a comprehensive fee list for professional interpreters/translators in various fields.
Generally speaking however, agencies pay about L.22.000 a page where each page is approximately 25 lines of 60 characters each . For private clients it is possible to ask for L30,000 per page and up.
There is really no available software – free or otherwise – which can do a creditable job of translating text from English into Italian or indeed from any language into another. While experienced translators are finding uses for those programmes that are available, the inexperienced translator should use them with care.
Altavista provides an online translation service. Be warned the results are far from satisfactory.
Trados:
DejaVu:
Other Links:
The following Web site provides over 350 links to free, online machine translation (MT) engines, translation dictionaries, translation word lists, and foreign language processing resources:
Altavista’s online translation service which leaves much to be desired (See Above)
The newsgroup
is " a major meeting place for translators and interpreters and for all those who are curious about anything to do with these professions. The group provides a forum where for those interested in the problems, issues, and concerns of translators and interpreters."
It is not the site where you should be posting or asking for work. A specific work-related site for translators exists for this:
EuroDicAutom – A terminology data base in nine languages including 5 million terms in many official EC languages:
A very impressive site offering 870 monolingual, bilingual and multilingual resources in the form of either downloadable or online dictionaries including detective slang, casing and packing industry terms, flower names, a cat fanciers glossary, silicon valley slang, model aeroplane dictionary and a lot more besides. Definitely worth a visit.
This English as a Second Language Web site, is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the World Wide Web, listing useful links which offer courses.
A directory of available online ESL Courses.
BBC World Service – Home Page
Uses radio, magazines, and cassettes to teach English as a second language.
The official Web site for Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) includes online testing, tutorials, practice and sample questions and study material as well as a library of material available for downloading
Knowledge 3000
TOEFL preparation via the Internet.
New York University: Toefl Preparation
Classroom TOEFL preparation course offered by New York University's American Language Institute.
Anglo-Continental England is based in the UK and is accredited by The British Council.
15. WORKING OVERSEAS
The following URL offers a wealth of information and advice to help you find what you are looking for especially with regard to short-term employment:
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/resources/work/shortterm/index.shtml
16. WHERE CAN I FIND A PEN-PAL TO WRITE TO?
to help improve their English. We offer the following suggestions where you could find a like-minded person.
The Student E-mail Exchange site should help you find someone looking for similar friends:
For students and teachers of English. A wealth of information is provided here where you’ll also be able to find pen-pals to write to.
If you can’t find anyone from the above sites, you might want to try:
Posting to the newsgroup " soc.penpals is also a good idea if you’re looking for someone with whom you can exchange e-mails
The mIRC homepage:
mIRC is not yet available in Italian but this URL will allow you to download the installation instructions in Italian: http://www.mirc.co.uk/translations/italian.html
To use ICQ in your own language, follow the steps listed on the following Web site which accesses LingoWare – a free downloadable programme to then translate ICQ into Italian
it has several features (such as the capability to share a screen to draw on or the voice communication option), most notably the compatibility with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Microsoft Network Messenger Service (MSNMS)
Microsoft Network Messenger
MSNM is important for NetMeeting, a part of the application that allows for voice communication over the Internet. It is rumoured to be a trifle better than the one offered by PowWow.
iCaster
Eliminating the need to have to download a chat programme, the following suggests many links which should be of help in locating others learning English who wish to chat:
http://www.esl.about.com/education/esl/msub1.htm .
18. ENGLISH USAGE:
When speaking of possession, for example a book, the correct forms are:
UK: I’ve got a car / I haven’t got a car
US: I have a car / I haven’t got a car
In British English you can’t omit the word ‘got’ when speaking of possession; therefore you can’t say for example: I have a book/ I haven’t a book.
In certain idiomatic phrases, the word ‘got’ is not used in England, therefore the negative form must be ‘don’t have’.
UK/US: I have breakfast every day/I don’t have breakfast every day
The I have/I haven’t form is used in England only when the verb ‘ to have ‘ is used as an auxillary (and the same for the US)
UK/US: I have seen / I haven’t seen
In this case, it would be incorrect to use ‘don’t have ’
"shall" vs "will", "should" vs "would"
The traditional rules for using these are quite intricate, and require some choices. If you're wanting to learn more, you can access the relevant section of ‘The King's English’ at:
In informal English, one can probably get away with using "who" all the time, except perhaps after a preposition.
The prescription for formal English is: use "who" as the subjective form (like "he" / "she" / "they"), and "whom" as a direct or indirect object (like "him" / "her" / "them"):
Very few English-speakers make these distinctions instinctively; most of those who observe them learned them explicitly.
When to use "the"
This is often quite tricky for those learning English. The basic rules can be found in the Purdue University Online Writing Lab's WWW page titled "The Use and Non-Use of Articles":
and in "An Overview of English Article Usage for Speakers of English as a Second Language" by John R. Kohl of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
The article "the" before a noun generally indicates one specific instance of the object named. For example, "I went to the school" refers to one school. (The context should establish which school is meant.) Such examples have the same meaning in all English-speaking countries.
19. MISCELLANEOUS
What will we call the next decade?
" 2001" will probably be called "two thousand and one", under the influence of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"; but after that, people will probably gradually switch to calling the years "twenty oh three", etc. What will we call the decade 2000-2009 (comparable to "the eighties", "the nineties", etc.), who knows? Stay with us, and doubtless we’ll all find out in good time.What are Telefonini called in English?
In American English they are usually called cell (cellular) phones
In British English however they are called mobile phones
(In Germany, so we are reliably informed, they are known as handy ).
An audio version of "The Chaos" is available on this Web site here and our thanks goes to yet another gallant Knight of The Realm, Martin J. Kenny for recording it and making it available for use.
"The Chaos" by Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenité
Trenité (1870 – 1946) wrote articles under the pen name CHARIVARIOUS and this poem appeared in a little booklet entitled "Drop Your English Accent".
Dearest creature in creation,
Studying English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomen, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mound like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamor
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangor.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does.
Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senate, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation – think of psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the same of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
the other possibility.
In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make
the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard 'c' will be dropped in favor of the 'k'. This should klear up
konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
troublesome 'ph' will be replased with the 'f'. This will make words like
'fotograf' 20% shorter!
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters which have always ben
a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is
disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with
'z' and 'w' wiz 'v'.
During ze fifz year ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou'
and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After ze fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensibl ritn styl. Zer vil be no mor
trubl or difikultis and evriun vil find it ezi tu undrstand ech ozer.
Zen Z Drem Vil Finali Kum Tru!!
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