Another "cuckoo's question"
anne marie devlin
anne_mariedevlin at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 31 15:30:10 UTC 2011
could it be 'built like a mountain'?
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:52:22 -0500
> From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Another "cuckoo's question"
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> [Overruling Konstantin's private reply-to setting]
>
> Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got another question out of "... the cuckoo's nest". In the
> > subtitles to the movie there is a phrase McMurphy tell the chief :
> >
> > Goddamn, boy, you're as big as a mountain!
> >
> > But really it can be heard as:
> >
> > Goddamn, boy, you're VULL ( or BULL or even BUD) as big as a
> > mountain!
> >
> > I'm very interested what really is instead of these VULL /BULL
> > /BUD?
>
> Easy:
>
> "Goddamn, boy, you're 'bout as big as a mountain!"
>
> If you listen carefully, you can hear the schwa in "about."
>
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