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6_bleen_7

Drama L(L)ama

Oct 08, 2005 17:20

Does anyone out there remember the movie Caddyshack? Pretty silly movie, really, but one that touched my life in an unusual way. At one point, Bill Murray talks about how he once caddied for the Dalai Lama. Naturally, he mangled the pronunciation, so it came out "the Wally Lamma" (with a short a in "Lamma"). At about the same time I saw ( Read more... )

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6_bleen_7 October 8 2005, 21:34:51 UTC

Absolutely! In fact, I made this icon expressly for you.

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6_bleen_7 October 9 2005, 04:37:01 UTC

Welcome to my journal! Not often I have new visitors.

Your comment is most interesting, as I've noticed the same thing, but I chalked it up to unintentional evolution of the language under pressure from word processors. (Microsoft Word defaults to automatically correcting a double capital at the beginning of a word.) I had to do some research on this just now; the story is more involved. For those not familiar with Spanish: Traditionally, CH, LL and RR were considered to function as single letters ("digraphs"), and when I started learning Spanish, I learned to say their names as che, elle and erre. However, in 1994 (I'm quoting from Wikipedia here), the Association of Spanish Languages agreed to consider these pairs as separate letters for some purposes, especially alphabetization. Some Spanish speakers now, when spelling a word, will say the two letters of these digraphs separately ( ... )

This is a post for chillyrodent October 9 2005, 15:06:55 UTC

q_pheevr! I think I'll summon him.

With such erudite friends, I don't actually have to know anything myself. As someone wise once said, "You don't have to know it, you just have to know how to find it."

Ooh! chillyrodent October 9 2005, 15:03:53 UTC

I'm wondering (off-topic) whether I have Super Hits of the 70's. Must go check.

Re: Ooh! 6_bleen_7 October 9 2005, 17:20:43 UTC

Heh-heh, I have vols. 9 and 18. Acquired the former for the Moog synthesizer song "Popcorn" and the latter for "Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band, a seemingly innocent song actually about sex in the daytime. I remember both of these vividly from my childhood, as well as many of the other songs on the albums. (For example, the themes to both Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley appear.)

Re: Ooh! samwibatt October 10 2005, 00:26:13 UTC

Sex in the daytime seems innocent enough, but I know what you mean.

Re: Ooh! 6_bleen_7 October 10 2005, 04:10:47 UTC

Okay-where does the icon come from?

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samwibatt October 10 2005, 03:58:48 UTC

At one point, John Belushi talks about how he once caddied for the Dalai Lama.

Got to pick one nit - it was Bill Murray.

6_bleen_7 October 10 2005, 04:11:17 UTC

D'oh! Guess I'm baked.