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February 12, 2004

Total number of comments

86

Total number of votes received

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Para

  • June 3, 2004, 5:05pm

That qoutation ain't really hitting nothing about Grotowski, I should say.
Check out the "tata, hoho" post, by the way

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?

Questions

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