linguistic movie moments

[Shana Walton]

Hey, on the spur of the moment, I decided to to go to the video store
tonight so that tomorrow I can bring in some fun "linguistic moments"
from the movies for the last day of class.  So, I'm taking in a couple
of my favorites: the second language acquisition scene from "The 13th
Warrior" (if you haven't seen it, it's worth seeing the movie just to
see Antonio Banderas learn a second language by just sitting around a
campfire, no assistance from the native speakers, and immediately
produces complex forms! I first saw this movie because a fellow linguist
called and said, hey, you've got to come see this...) And there's the
scene from "Canadian Bacon" between John Candy D(?) and Stephen Wright.
Stephen Wright, playing a Canadian, says "What's this aboot?" and John
Candy (or somebody else) says "We're going to knock that "oot" out of
your speech!" Very funny.

There are so many out there. I thought y'all might have some other great
fun ideas.

shana
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