French folk etymology: bleu-jaune

[Wilson Gray]

I don't understand your reply, Mark. You say that, according to
Wikipedia, there's no connection, then you provide a cite from
Wikipedia that shows that there *is* a connection.

FWIW, the subtitling was provided by an old friend of mine, the late
Martin "Marty" Minow, a nephew of the better-known Newton "Television
Is a Vast Wasteland" Minow. Though he never specifically stated that
there was a connection between the two movies - well, given that the
titles refer to the colors of the Swedish flag, there cannot *not* be
*some* connection between the two, unless you want to claim that the
colors of the Swedish flag are themselves accidental - he also never
said anything to indicate that they had nothing to do with each other.

"While in Sweden, I helped translate three Swedish films:  I am
Curious Yellow, I am Curious Blue, and They Call Us Mods."

http://www.merrymeet.com/minow/

Again, FWIW, a Swedish friend told me that, essentially, the colors of
the Swedish flag commemorate the miraculous appearance of a gold cross
against a blue sky that assured the Swedes that it was indeed God's
will that they conquer the Finns and dispossess them of of their land,
Manifest Destiny-style.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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>> In the 1960s a famous pair of films scandalized America: I AM CURIOUS=20
>> (YELLOW) Â  and I AM CURIOUS (BLUE). Any connection?
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> Not according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Curious_(Blue)):
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>> I Am Curious (Blue) (original Swedish title: Jag är nyfiken - blå) is a 1968 film directed by Vilgot Sjöman and starring Lena Nyman as a character named after herself. It is a companion film to 1967's I Am Curious (Yellow); the two were initially intended to be one 3½ hour film.[1] The films are named after the colours of the Swedish flag.
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>> Blue is a second version of Yellow, taking place before and after the first movie. It has a more somber and bitterly satiric style, and a further explication of the framing narrative.
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