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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