linguistic movie moments

[kate riley]

And has anyone watched Bambi's language acquisition process recently?
B-b-b-birds?

Kate

Shana Walton wrote:
>
> 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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