[Lexicog] Humour, OTT completely

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

I once watched the film "Oklahoma Crude" on an airplane
dubbed into French. It takes place in the oilfields of
Oklahoma, and in the original the oil isn't the only
thing that is crude. Most of the characters had strong
Oklahoma and Texas accents, and were speaking colloquial
and often vulgar English. The French dub was into a not
very colloquial register of standard French. It sounded
very strange.

With regard to Hogan's Heroes, although it portrayed the
Americans as smart and the Germans as stupid, my reaction
at least was that it was actually sympathetic to Germans
in the sense that they were portrayed for the most part
as ordinary people caught up in a bad situation rather than
as committed Nazi monsters.

Bill
 
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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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