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ta-ta & ho-ho
- June 3, 2004, 4:07pm
Sven,you got it wrong man. Though you, mentioning the New Oelean Jazz may ring a bell. However, it's Dean Andrews who says "You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho" when he denies that Clay shaw is Clay Bertrand. By tha sentence he means that "yes I named the Clay Bertrand (ta-ta), but you got the wrong guy (ho-ho)nstead of him".
This guy talks wierd throughout the film when he appears. Check out these:
"We been thicker'n molasses pie since law school". "I gave'em anything that popped into my cabeza". "Is this off the record, Daddy-o?" ""Big Enchilada"" AND "The government's gonna jump all over your head, Jimbo, and go "cock-a-doodledoo!""
You can check out the script at: http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/JFK1.txt
Para
- June 3, 2004, 3:18pm
Not quite postmodern, but I'm troubled with a beardy Polish man, named Jerzy Grotowski who once said "I said yes to past".
However, he had a research program known as the paratheatre. Do you know anything about him?
The thing is that I gotta translate this term to Persian. Any suggestion? :)
Pronouns
- May 21, 2004, 10:13am
Scots? That's a wee bit difficult, though nice try. We mighn't ge' whatch ya sayin' anymore, love"!
Pronouns
- May 20, 2004, 7:44pm
Speedwel
I think Alec is somehow right. I don't know about Australia but I can notice this "he" and "His" a lot more in the English English books more then one could find in American's for instance. It could also be seen in the current publications. I think it's a matter of British norms and stuff, you know.
ta-ta & ho-ho
- May 19, 2004, 4:50pm
OK! The charactor who says this "ta-ta, ho-ho" (if you have seen the film) says a hell a lot of other wierd stuff. The thing is that thoes things which he adds to the end of his lines in the film are not subtittled unfortunately. So I don't know what he says at all. If you could check it out and let me know what kind of dialect he is indicating.
Pronouns
- May 13, 2004, 6:44pm
You're teacher was right speedwell. The "gender" in language(s) has little to do with "sex". Even in the languages where a same pronoun is used for the both "sexes" there could still be a distinguish between "genders".
Isn’t it odd?
- May 11, 2004, 6:06pm
So I just wonder why can't one create the new word, "odditiness". I mean what's the red line of right or wrong when it comes to composing new words? I have before mentioned that Derrida for instance distinguishes between "irrepresentablity" and "unrepresentablity".
http://painintheenglish.com/post.asp?id=133
I know that I still have problems to speak simple English, but there are times when one needs to compose new words. So there must be a measure.
Be-martyred
- May 11, 2004, 5:53pm
By the way, could you give some example of the facetious use of "be-"?
Be-martyred
- May 11, 2004, 5:51pm
I'm sorry speedwell, but I just don't get when this "modern times" are! You agree that the words mention "below" are still used, so what does "in modern times words are no longer formed by adding "be-" to them" mean?
Do you mean we do not make new ones?
BBC has just one today; "Beheaded": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3705409.stm
They could as well say "decapitated", right?
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People(s) | February 10, 2004 |
Gerund and Present Participle | February 12, 2004 |
Pronounciation of TH+S | February 16, 2004 |
Weird name | February 16, 2004 |
Any reference? | February 17, 2004 |
un/ir | February 17, 2004 |
Have/halve | February 18, 2004 |
More than a pain in the English! | February 26, 2004 |
00′s | March 3, 2004 |
- | March 25, 2004 |
S | April 14, 2004 |
Term | April 14, 2004 |
114 | April 19, 2004 |
Who’s this Joe? | April 19, 2004 |
Following the Joe | April 23, 2004 |
English schools | April 26, 2004 |
Gerontophile? | April 28, 2004 |
Semtex | April 29, 2004 |
Isn’t it odd? | May 6, 2004 |
ir | May 9, 2004 |
G-string | May 9, 2004 |
Be-martyred | May 10, 2004 |
Oral vs. Aural | May 11, 2004 |
ta-ta & ho-ho | May 15, 2004 |
Para | June 1, 2004 |
Am I L-deaf? | June 9, 2004 |
Punctuation | June 13, 2004 |
P & K | June 15, 2004 |
...t you | June 18, 2004 |
F word | June 18, 2004 |
negating | June 21, 2004 |
The | June 22, 2004 |
Pawshop | July 2, 2004 |
Lacking Smell | July 2, 2004 |
At or in | July 8, 2004 |
Y2K | July 12, 2004 |
Example | July 23, 2004 |
Looking for a word | July 29, 2004 |
OK | July 29, 2004 |
ab | August 26, 2004 |
Mixing | October 1, 2004 |
Fuff | October 1, 2004 |
V-cards | November 1, 2004 |
Bios | December 6, 2004 |
Hairy | December 11, 2004 |
Ya’ese | December 11, 2004 |
BCC | December 12, 2004 |
Films | December 26, 2004 |
all | December 31, 2004 |
Credit card | January 6, 2005 |
B4 Dickens | January 14, 2005 |
L | January 30, 2005 |
Joke | June 19, 2005 |
Dick & Bob | July 26, 2007 |
Frowing | October 12, 2007 |
Head shot | October 19, 2007 |
Para
That qoutation ain't really hitting nothing about Grotowski, I should say.
Check out the "tata, hoho" post, by the way