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Raymond S. Wise
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:01 am
Post subject: Re: Yeahello! |
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Weatherlawyer wrote:
| Quote: | Raymond S. Wise wrote:
the Omrud wrote:
So here's one for the US contingent - why does the baby in Family Guy sound English?
Because he's a villian and villians often have a British accent (in the movies, at least)?
Strange; you would think that with the move to more politically correct
attitudes -having robbed original Americans of what little work they
ever had a chance at, the job of the villains should be given to the
French.
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The French have another function in *The Simpsons*: They fill the place
of a stereotyped ethnic group about which one may still joke. The
stereotype is the same one as that found in other sources of
contemporary American humor--late-night talk-show host monologues, for
example--and it seems a rather stupid one to me.
The tradition of the British as villain is something I associate with
Hollywood movies of the 1950s, in which, in a program which took place
in ancient times, the sympathetic characters--Jews or slaves, for
example--would speak American English while the bad guys--namely the
Romans--would speak British English.
I'd say that Captain Jean-Luc Picard of *Star Trek: The Next
Generation,* goes against both of the above stereotypes, being a good
guy who is a Frenchman who speaks British English.
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Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
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Raymond S. Wise
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:01 am
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Sin Jeong-hun wrote:
| Quote: | Homer always answers with something sounds like _yeahello!_ when he
gets the phone. Sometimes Mr.Burns also uses the word. It seems like
yeah + hello but sounds like a one word. Do many Americans use this
word when they get a phone?
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The people who write the closed captioning for *The Simpsons* spell it
"Yello," and that seems to me to be a good way of representing what
Homer says.
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Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
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James Silverton
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:15 pm
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Raymond wrote on 7 Nov 2005 22:32:38 -0800:
RSW> Sin Jeong-hun wrote:
??>> Homer always answers with something sounds like
??>> _yeahello!_ when he gets the phone. Sometimes Mr.Burns
??>> also uses the word. It seems like yeah + hello but sounds
??>> like a one word. Do many Americans use this word when they
??>> get a phone?
RSW> The people who write the closed captioning for *The
RSW> Simpsons* spell it "Yello," and that seems to me to be a
RSW> good way of representing what Homer says.
Is that the solution to a small mystery that's been bothering me
for a year or ever since I first heard people saying "Yello"
when answering a phone? Did it start with the Simpsons or was it
earlier than that?
James Silverton.
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The Grammer Genious
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:01 am
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Iain <iain_inkster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131311442.168423.148500@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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Alan OBrien wrote:
"Iain" <iain_inkster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131270941.198756.204110@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Sin Jeong-hun wrote:
Homer always answers with something sounds like _yeahello!_ when he
gets the phone. Sometimes Mr.Burns also uses the word. It seems like
yeah + hello but sounds like a one word. Do many Americans use this
word when they get a phone?
Mr. Burn seems like a "British American" or whatever. Anyone else feel
that?
Nah. He's a Yank.
But I have noticed that whenever a film is being made on the Simpsons
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director of that film is always a definte Englishman. I wouldn't mind,
but
there aren't that many famous English directors nowadays.
He says "bloody", though -- "get to the bloody point!"
I ken he's a Yank, but maybe of British parentage, etc
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Mr. Burns said, "Well, me and my fourth form chums think It would be quite
corking if you would..." Maybe he's an anglomaniac. |
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