First film title in Inglish

Bill Palmer w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET
Sat Aug 29 19:39:05 UTC 2009


I'm glad Tom Z  asked, 'cause I was having a hard time figuring it out, too,
but didn't want to admit that I didn't get it.

Bill Palmer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: First film title in Inglish


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> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: First film title in Inglish
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> Because it's Inglish! The hot, hot, hot new English of tomorrow spoken by
> dudes and dudettes born yesterday!
>
> Dudes and dudettes who know it ain't what you say *or* the way that you
> say
> it!  (Or write it!)
>
> Language is changing and dudes and dudettes are changing it!  It's English
> as he/she is spoke!  Why use the tired old language of the boring old past
> when you can slip into something oh-so-much more comfortable?
>
> MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm..........Yeah!
>
> It's hot! It's now ! It's sexy! It's Inglish!
>
> JL
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> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Tom Zurinskas
> <truespel at hotmail.com>wrote:
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>> Why "Inglish"?
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>> Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+=20
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>> > Date: Thu=2C 27 Aug 2009 13:55:00 -0400
>> > From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
>> > Subject: Re: First film title in Inglish
>> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>> > Larry is correct.
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>> > JL
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>> > On Thu=2C Aug 27=2C 2009 at 1:45 PM=2C Laurence Horn
>> > <laurence.horn at yale.
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>> edu>wrote:
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>> > > Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> > > Subject: Re: First film title in Inglish
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>> > > At 1:15 PM -0400 8/27/09=2C Mark Mandel wrote:
>> > > >What is "CHA=3DD0=3DAFLY"=2C which is how it came through here?
>> > > >
>> > > >m a m
>> > >
>> > > For "=3DD0=3D" read the Russian letter for "ya"=2C which is the
>> backwar=
>> ds
>> > > "R" of "Toys ___ Us" and also more relevantly of "CHA_LY". That's
>> > > the way I received it=2C and I assume the way Jon sent it--it's the
>> > > movie from "Flowers for Algernon".
>> > >
>> > > LH
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > >On Fri=2C Aug 21=2C 2009 at 11:46 AM=2C Jonathan Lighter <
>> > > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> > > >wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> "Inglourious Basterds."
>> > > >>
>> > > >> (Actually the second if you count "CHA=3DD0=3DAFLY.")
>> > > >> (First movie ad was "The birds is coming=2C" but that's just
>> > > punctuation.)
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Why fast-forward yourself to the 28th C. to chuckle at their
>> > > "language=2C"
>> > > >> when you can do it now for free?
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