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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:35 pm
Post subject: "The flicks" |
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Elsewhere, on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:01:41 +0100, trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux)
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With "cinema," why would a person plan to go to more than one cinema?
It's the movie theater.
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Well, that sounds both Left Pond and very polite. There are those around here
who still talk about "the pictures", in fact, it's still possible to say "the
flicks". I don't think "the movies" has made it here, even amongst the young,
except on trendy review programmes.
This has been discussed here before, two or three years ago, when "flick" was
regarded as dated by some. However it has been nicely revived in the term "chick
flick".
While a single screen cinema would be either "the cinema" or "the pictures", I
think the big multiscreen places are called the "multiscreen", or more likely
the "multiplex".
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Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth
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Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:08 pm
Post subject: Re: "The flicks" |
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Jim Lawton <usenet1@jimlawton.TAKEOUTinfo> wrote:
| Quote: | trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux) wrote:
With "cinema," why would a person plan to go to more than one cinema?
It's the movie theater.
Well, that sounds both Left Pond and very polite. There are those around here
who still talk about "the pictures", in fact, it's still possible to say "the
flicks". I don't think "the movies" has made it here, even amongst the young,
except on trendy review programmes.
This has been discussed here before, two or three years ago, when "flick"
was regarded as dated by some. However it has been nicely revived in the
term "chick flick".
While a single screen cinema would be either "the cinema" or "the
pictures", I think the big multiscreen places are called the
"multiscreen", or more likely the "multiplex".
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I wasn't saying "Everybody calls it the movie theater." I meant, the
cinema is the place, the building, the theater, not the entertainment or
the contents or anything like that, and it's very unlikely that a person
would go to more than one such location in one day.
Let's see, you've lost the fuller context, but now I've found it. The
poster was asking whether "the cinema" in "I would like to go the cinema
tomorrow" could "be one OR MORE semantically."
If a person *did* go to more than one location in a day, would they say
"I went to the cinema yesterday" or "I went to the cinemas yesterday"?
Neither sounds likely, because "the cinema" can stand for any cinema,
but "the cinemas" must mean some specific ones. If the listener knew of
the same few cinemas, the second makes a bit of sense. Me, I'd say "I
went to the movies, twice."
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:32 pm
Post subject: Re: "The flicks" |
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:08:46 +0100, trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux) wrote:
| Quote: | Jim Lawton <usenet1@jimlawton.TAKEOUTinfo> wrote:
trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux) wrote:
With "cinema," why would a person plan to go to more than one cinema?
It's the movie theater.
Well, that sounds both Left Pond and very polite. There are those around here
who still talk about "the pictures", in fact, it's still possible to say "the
flicks". I don't think "the movies" has made it here, even amongst the young,
except on trendy review programmes.
This has been discussed here before, two or three years ago, when "flick"
was regarded as dated by some. However it has been nicely revived in the
term "chick flick".
While a single screen cinema would be either "the cinema" or "the
pictures", I think the big multiscreen places are called the
"multiscreen", or more likely the "multiplex".
I wasn't saying "Everybody calls it the movie theater." I meant, the
cinema is the place, the building, the theater, not the entertainment or
the contents or anything like that, and it's very unlikely that a person
would go to more than one such location in one day.
Let's see, you've lost the fuller context, but now I've found it. The
poster was asking whether "the cinema" in "I would like to go the cinema
tomorrow" could "be one OR MORE semantically."
If a person *did* go to more than one location in a day, would they say
"I went to the cinema yesterday" or "I went to the cinemas yesterday"?
Neither sounds likely, because "the cinema" can stand for any cinema,
but "the cinemas" must mean some specific ones. If the listener knew of
the same few cinemas, the second makes a bit of sense. Me, I'd say "I
went to the movies, twice."
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Yes, sorry, I was trying not to hijack the other thread by specifically
extracting the name "movie theater". I intentionally lost the context, but now
it's back where it shouldn't be. Ho hum.
Mice, men, agley etc.
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Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:06 am
Post subject: Re: "The flicks" |
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:35:53 GMT, Jim Lawton
<usenet1@jimlawton.TAKEOUTinfo> wrote:
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Elsewhere, on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:01:41 +0100, trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux)
wrote:
With "cinema," why would a person plan to go to more than one cinema?
It's the movie theater.
Well, that sounds both Left Pond and very polite. There are those around here
who still talk about "the pictures", in fact, it's still possible to say "the
flicks". I don't think "the movies" has made it here, even amongst the young,
except on trendy review programmes.
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Still, "flick" and "movie" occasionally appear in film reviews in the
_Radio Times_, Britain's biggest selling magazine. I found instances
of both in this week's issue. "Film" is, by far, the usual word
though, as has been said.
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