First film title in Inglish

[Jonathan Lighter]

Larry is correct.

JL

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 1:15 PM -0400 8/27/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >What is "CHA=D0=AFLY", which is how it came through here?
> >
> >m a m
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> For "=D0=" read the Russian letter for "ya", which is the backwards
> "R" of "Toys ___ Us" and also more relevantly of "CHA_LY".  That's
> the way I received it, and I assume the way Jon sent it--it's the
> movie from "Flowers for Algernon".
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> LH
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> >
> >On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>  "Inglourious Basterds."
> >>
> >>  (Actually the second if you count "CHA=D0=AFLY.")
> >>  (First movie ad was "The birds is coming," but that's just
> punctuation.)
> >>
> >>  Why fast-forward yourself to the 28th C. to chuckle at their
> "language,"
> >>  when you can do it now for free?
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