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From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:19:27 -0600
It was just an explanation.  If you find "keester" to be precious,
then you get the point.

BTW I've seen some news media subtitle American blacks as well as
southern whites. I understood them perfectly and wondered why they had
bothered.  You've provided the explanation: the broadcasts are
tailored to a much broader audience.

Joel W.


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I didn't know that being correct was worthy of such punishment.
> It ain't precious, it are right.
> Keester however IS precious when you mean arse. :-)
>
> Interesting the difficulty murkins have with dialects, I've been
> reminded of late. A friend found it impossible to buy a banana
> somewhere in the People's Republic because she didn't pronounce it as
> badly as the locals. There's only so many times you can hear 'Huh?' as
> a response before you give up. And I've noticed that CNN and Fox news
> tend to subtitle perfectly understandable English spoken by Indians or
> Scots.
> Then I was watching Ben Affleck's movie, Gone Baby, Gone a couple of
> days ago (good movie) in which the Boston dialect is so impenetrable
> that I could get about one word in three in some scenes. Did citizens
> of other areas demand subtitles? - I didn't feel the need.
> However, I'll make an exception for Sir Alex Ferguson's after match
> press conferences (or anti-ref diatribes).
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 14/11/2009, at 1:04 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
>> Jez, you ask a straightforward question, and I think I can provide an
>> answer.  "Maths'" sounds so precious that no American would say it in
>> fear of being forced to wear a tutu, or a school uniform, and kicked
>> repeatedly in the keester.  I hope that helps. :)
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