Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
sciallarsi
English translation:
bum around (Northern Italy)
Added to glossary by
RosFlinn (X)
Jan 25, 2006 13:10
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Italian term
RosFlinn (X)
sciallarsi
Italian to English
Other
Slang
colloquial e-mail
...ho un buon lavoro ben pagato, mi sciallo in ufficio, mi gestisco il mio tempo..
just musing about the fact that he has, all things considered, been lucky in life
just musing about the fact that he has, all things considered, been lucky in life
Proposed translations
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| 3 +3 | bum around |
dropinka (X)
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| 5 | have fun / enjoy / have a ball |
Vittorina Klingbeil (X)
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| 4 | to relax |
silvia tamanini
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| 3 | to chill out |
Alessandra Sticotti (X)
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Proposed translations
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bum around
"Mi sciallo in ufficio" obviously means that he has fun, but it also means that he has fun because he does nothing (or next to nothing, or in any case he's either not bogged down with work or unwilling to work hard / take it too seriously).
So I'd choose "bum around" :)
So I'd choose "bum around" :)
Peer comment(s):
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Alfredo Tutino
: and I'd add that it has distinctively Northern Italy sound. A recent radio ad that used a similar word ("stai sciallo" - don't get excited) excited laughter and derision here in Rome when transmitted on local radios...
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Francesco Volpe
: Just a not to Alfredo, though. "Sciallo" is a norther italian mispelled word for the original Sicilian word "scialo" that means having fun. See "Lo scialo" by Elio Vittorini.
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theDsaint
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silvia tamanini
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to relax
it could be, normally young people use it to say "to calm down", but in this case I guess this would be the meaning.
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to chill out
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have fun / enjoy / have a ball
mi sciallo means 'I have fun at the office it' or 'I have fun at the office'. Actually a more colloquial/slangy expression would be 'I have a ball at the office'
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Note added at 6 hrs (2006-01-25 20:04:01 GMT)
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I may be wrong but it seems that there are different meanings associated with the word according to the area of Italy involved. I know that in the South you would use 'che sciallo!' to express extreme pleasure and joy in something, and you could not use 'bum around' or 'relax' terms to describe this feeling. Maybe knowing from which area the email comes from would help in deciding which term suits best.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2006-01-25 20:04:01 GMT)
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I may be wrong but it seems that there are different meanings associated with the word according to the area of Italy involved. I know that in the South you would use 'che sciallo!' to express extreme pleasure and joy in something, and you could not use 'bum around' or 'relax' terms to describe this feeling. Maybe knowing from which area the email comes from would help in deciding which term suits best.
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