LL-L "Etymology" 2002.12.22 (02) [E]

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From: George M Gibault <gmg at direct.ca>
Subject: Negatives and borrowings

By the way, Harlan, "segway" isn't a coined word! The word "segue" is just
a straight Hollywood borrowing from Spanish meaning transition from its
literal Spanish meaning "follows." For some reason it became popular among
Hollywood gays of the "flamer" variety to pepper their speech with phrases
from Spanish to prove they were trendy - (as they had been doing with
French for decades if not centuries in England) and it spread from them
through the movie industry - being picked up by scriptwriters, d.o.p.s
(directors of photography) and from there into the general public. I find
it fascinating that it is now so engrained that its origin in L.A.has been
forgotten by people who don't work (or dabble as I do) in the movie
business!

People who still use a lot of "L.A. Spanish" this way are even parodied in
some t.v. sitcoms as annoyingly pretentious characters. (e.g. "Michael" on
the Newhart show)

Feliz navidad Jorge (George)

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