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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:29:44 GMT -5
This winged off into a funny new discussion re regional/national slang etrms, hence the new thread. Here we go! Jim talking about seeing a color...what is so strange about that? People that go totally blind later in life are perfectly capable of conjuring up a remembered color in a certain circumstance. Also, a sighted person having lost all sight, the brain will try to compensate for the lack of images and many people will see color. It could be purple one day, green another. It happens without actively imagining it. I have no idea what "chuck me a wobbly" means  , but it's a funny line. Chucking a wobbly is an Australian way of saying throwing a spak attack.  My comment on the "see a color" is probably really fuled by hearing that in the early episodes RE was against including the fuzzy blob footage which confused the issue of VI /totally blind and I fel tthis did the same thing. Natascha |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:31:46 GMT -5
Chucking a wobbly is an Australian way of saying throwing a spak attack. My comment on the "see a color" is probably really fuled by hearing that in the early episodes RE was against including the fuzzy blob footage which confused the issue of VI /totally blind and I fel tthis did the same thing. Natascha Don't know what a spak attack is either. We English-speaking folk certainly have great regional colloquialisms, don't we?  This being the blooper reel thread, I don't quite think I understand why you believe Jim explaining seeing a color to the boy constitutes a mistake. Have you seen the first few episodes yet? I seem to remember you didn't start watching until later in the series, but maybe you have gotten a copy of them by now. I hope you have! 8-)In the first episode, they showed flashes of what Jim might imagine the crime scene looked like. That wasn't a blooper, either, but it certainly was a bit confusing if a person wasn't paying strict attention. (I felt like it was a botched attempt to imitate the way Matt Murdock perceived space in Daredevil, and was glad they didn't continue to use that throughout the series.) The red blob you mention also was a bit disconcerting when Jim faced down the perp in the kitchen, but it could certainly play into the part of the FACT that totally blind people may at times experience a flash of color. Even though that effect wasn't the greatest they could have used, it probably doesn't deserve to be called a blooper. Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to understand why you consider these to be catagorized as "bloopers". |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:34:58 GMT -5
Don't know what a spak attack is either. We English-speaking folk certainly have great regional colloquialisms, don't we? I really have no idea, but taking a wild guess I'd say it's kind of like "Give me a break!  " |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:36:45 GMT -5
Don't know what a spak attack is either. We English-speaking folk certainly have great regional colloquialisms, don't we? I really have no idea, but taking a wild guess I'd say it's kind of like "Give me a break! " |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:38:18 GMT -5
I really have no idea, but taking a wild guess I'd say it's kind of like "Give me a break! " Maybe its something like a spaz attack--like you are having an actual spasm over something. Around here we often say having a kaniption fit ( never tried spelling this before so I hope you get my meaning!)--similar to a spaz attack for when something literally drives you up a wall or drives you crazy.  |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:40:05 GMT -5
Yes a spak attack or spaz attack or chucking a wobbly means getting worked/angry/annoyed about something. |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:41:47 GMT -5
Ok...gotcha. I just wouldn't use that phrase in the UK after all the stuff Tiger Woods went through.  |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:43:31 GMT -5
Ok...gotcha. I just wouldn't use that phrase in the UK after all the stuff Tiger Woods went through. I'm in the dark about how that applies to Tiger woods. |
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Post by maggiethecat on May 18, 2006 17:44:44 GMT -5
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Post by inuvik on May 18, 2006 18:34:16 GMT -5
I would never use any colloquialisms. That's just poor grammar eh. |
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Post by bjobsessed on May 18, 2006 20:31:17 GMT -5
I would never use any colloquialisms. That's just poor grammar eh. Being Canadian, anyone who is not from here often asks me to say "eh" for them. I don't know why, but everyone gets a big kick out of that. Of course, I usually say it. Love the smiles it brings even if I don't get it. |
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Post by bjobsessed on May 18, 2006 20:35:35 GMT -5
One of my favourite terms from South Africa:
I have to go to the 'loo' (not sure of the spelling) It means bathroom. If the stall is in use it is 'engaged' not 'occupied.'
(I spent the summer there in 88)
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Post by anna on May 18, 2006 21:21:43 GMT -5
When I'm in other parts of the country, people always ask me what part of the south I'm from - there is no question it's somewhere in the south. A person in New Orleans, used to hearing all sorts of accents in that great tourist town, pegged me as being from Tennessee based simply on how I said "before" (something like "buh-fo-ur" :  . My favorite accent-based encounter happened on a bus in London. Hearing us talking to each other, the conductor asked my friend and me where we were from. When we said Nashville, he started telling how much he loved Jimmie Rodgers. For the rest of the trip, between taking tickets, he stood beside us and sang Jimmie Rodgers songs as we rolled through the streets of London. |
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Post by Dreamfire on May 18, 2006 21:25:11 GMT -5
Ah, I see whatyou are referring to now. No spak attack is not the same as spaz, spazis quite inappropriate and demeaning hereis OZ too, although I think our humoris perhaps more self depreciating that US humor. For instance DH took a busload of hnadicapped kids on a theatre tour and come back having laughed ALL DAY. He said they spent most of their time calling each other paz's and asking each other " what's wrong with you? You a spaz>" He said these were mostly without intellectual diasabillity, they all had CP and loved making faces at people inthe cars they passed, calling them Spaz's. I know it is different if one has the problem in question, howevere I thinkwe are generally alittle more relaxed. You have to remember Australia is even more of a melting pot of nationalities than the states, and we have all grown p with mixed grups of people so perhaps we are not quite as precious about our disabled? Having said that I do not have anyfriends currently who are seriously disabled and may be talking a crock of S--T. ;D If I offended anyone, please know I don't mean to. And please keep safety in mind when using unfamilar terms. ANy words I have infected you with do not come with a guarantee of understanding to any parties to whom you may speak them. |
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Post by Dreamfire on May 18, 2006 21:25:50 GMT -5
I would never use any colloquialisms. That's just poor grammar eh. Being Canadian, anyone who is not from here often asks me to say "eh" for them. I don't know why, but everyone gets a big kick out of that. Of course, I usually say it. Love the smiles it brings even if I don't get it. what's it sound like when you say it? |
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