buffo

20:03 Mar 8, 2010 

Thank you, Tom for having (repeatedly, here and in the p.c.) only insulted me, without any attempt to be mortally offensive? More in detail, you think I am idiotic/pathetic/laughable/ridicolous.
Because you declared that this is (for you, I want to observe) the meaning of the word 'buffo'.

And just because I disagreed with you.
Sorry if I am an Italian native speaker trying to explain the meaning of an Italian word and trying to explain it even to you and even despite you are convinced to know its meaning better than everyone else.

19:56 Mar 8, 2010 

..ma sei proprio buffa.

E' offensivo o amichevole il mio commento? O ambedue?

Non ho MAI detto che "buffo " DEVE avere un significato negativo.

19:55 Mar 8, 2010 

I'm sorry since I begin to suspect you have (very sad) personal reasons explaining your weird, unmotivated and incomprehensible convincement that buffo must have a negative/offensive meaning...
Indeed, even this last entry of yours has nothing to do with the meaning and translation of the Italian term 'buffo'!
:D

19:44 Mar 8, 2010 

... Mr. Buffo could be translated as "Mr Weirdo" or "Mr. Slightly Ridiculous and Amusing in a Sad Sort of Way" which is vaguely insulting- the kind of insult that is indirect and really annoying because it's "concealed" and you can't take issue with it. A put-down, in other words. If a person I didn't like called me "Buffo" I would be deeply offended. But if a person I liked called me "Buffo" I would enjoy it. So you see, it all depends on the context. As David Russi originally said.

19:34 Mar 8, 2010 

Mr. Funny is buffo :)

19:18 Mar 8, 2010 

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&safe=off&q="Mr. Fu...

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:)

R: exactly, Crowley you get the point! :)

19:14 Mar 8, 2010 

"Question asker" here :)
The original context was discussing how to pronounce a person's name, Mr. Buffo. One speaker kept saying "boof-o" and the other said no, it's "buff-o" and that you'd never want to call an Italian "boof-o," implying that it was somehow offensive. It didn't seem offensive to me, but I just wanted to find out if there was something behind his comment.
Thanks

12:07 Mar 8, 2010 

yes, that would help

12:05 Mar 8, 2010 

i repeat my original entreaty. any chance of the asker giving us the sentence, so that we can decide whether the thing is in fact "buffo" or not?

11:39 Mar 8, 2010 

più o meno, la duplicità del senso è simile a quella di 'buffo'.

Ma non direi che 'you make me laugh' è una frase insultante, usata normalmente... :)

11:18 Mar 8, 2010 

La risposta al mio p.c.??

Boh ... Cmq, come lì, anche qui ti spiego quello è un uso sarcastico che puoi fare con qualsiasi altro appellativo affettuoso usato appositamente per voler dire l'opposto.
La tua nota non c'entra niente rispetto al significato reale di 'buffo'.
Sorry! :)

11:13 Mar 8, 2010 

Vedete la mia nota sotto

11:06 Mar 8, 2010 

non è un insulto, assolutamente no! è affettuoso.
Può diventare offensivo solo se usato in modo paternalistico. Ovvero, se - per esempio - è riferito a una persona che si sta impegnando a fare qualcosa e tu dici che è buffo, cioè, in questo caso, che è un po' patetico. It's like 'funny'.

Ma generalmente è un appellativo simpatico, molto usato con bambini e pets. :)

http://images.google.it/images?hl=it&client=safari&rls=en&q=...


Tutt'altra cosa è invece "buffoNE", che invece se prima si riferiva ai giullari, adesso, è diventato un vero e proprio insulto ed è molto offensivo.

03:44 Mar 8, 2010 

please?