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Feb 12, 2008 22:18

I wrote up and never quite completed a longish bit of due South language/communication meta/musing, and think I'm not going to a) finish all the trains of thought I started, and/or b) find my point, so instead I'm going to post it. I love the internets.

(What I wrote ended up very Kowalski and F/K-centric. Shocking.)

( Do you hear what I hear? )

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china_shop February 13 2008, 05:42:03 UTC

And then there's Mountie and Soul, and Ray trying to talk street slang and Fraser totally failing to.

This is a fun post! I enjoyed it a lot. :-)

slidellra February 13 2008, 06:37:46 UTC

*shudders*

I try not to think of it. But, yes. This does fit in the same space. And, god, despite the DESPERATE embarrassment factor, it is really interesting as another example of Ray schooling Fraser (and revealing his own UTTER FAILURE) and Fraser failing at U.S./city/Chicago/(not to mention non-white)-speak. I see Fraser making a joke or resisting, at best, and Paul, really (also known as at worst). Mostly, I see my fingers as I shield myself from the horror.

Thanks! Yay!

china_shop February 13 2008, 10:20:13 UTC

another example of Ray schooling Fraser (and revealing his own UTTER FAILURE)

See, I think we as viewers recognise Ray's failure, but I don't know if the show agrees with us or not. He manages to talk their way into the gang HQ, after all. *is in two minds*

green_grrl February 13 2008, 15:30:15 UTC

Yeah, I pretty much read RayK as communicating just fine with the gang kids. With the body language and the way they deal with him, they seem to accept him as cool.

slidellra February 13 2008, 16:43:38 UTC

*nodsnods* Yeah, I was definitely parenthetically venting my own embarrassment issues. I don't think the gang members buy him as authentic in his use of slang--I think they double-take and grin at him a bit--but he does navigate the social group very well and with a significant amount of reciprocal good will, and that seems somewhat due to his partial success with the lingo and respect for him trying. (I have a Very Hard Time with Fraser in that episode, am now intrigued by the contrast between his excessive multilingualism and his total failure at [to the point of conscious/unconscious rejection of] slang ( ... )

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