First film title in Inglish

Mark Mandel Mark.A.Mandel at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 28 18:15:16 UTC 2009


Akh, spasibo. That was a very good movie from an amazing story and novel.

Mark



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