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#8761 - 10/26/00 09:32 AM Re: Mogambo
FishonaBike veteran Registered: 10/11/00 Posts: 1346 Loc: Sussex, England	jack squat to do with gorillas I rest my case. "Mogambo" = "Let's get the hell out of here!" (this translation for under 18s)
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#8762 - 10/26/00 09:46 AM Re: Mogambo
shanks old hand Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 1004 Loc: London, UK	I hope you'll credit your co-translator?
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#8763 - 10/26/00 02:29 PM Re: Mogambo
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409	... none of which has jack squat to do with gorillas or mogambo. Ain't no one never told ya nothin' about it being wrong for to be using double negatives?
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#8764 - 10/26/00 03:50 PM Re: Mogambo
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Max says it is "wrong for to be using double negatives." One assumes this a critique of the construction "jack squat." One assumes that his objection is that "jack" has the same meaning as squat, permitting one to say "He don't know jack" and "He don't know squat" without altering the meaning of either. Not so, learned one. The clause "You don't know jack" is a shortening of "You don't know jack shit" where the last word is omitted for decency's sake. Squat is a colloquial verb meaning "to defecate" and a noun meaning "defecation." Thus, the construction "jack squat" restores the entirety of the clause, using a synonym in the last position. Eh?
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#8765 - 10/26/00 03:54 PM Re: Mogambo
jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981	Oh how good it is to be amongst true intellectuals!
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#8766 - 10/26/00 04:10 PM Intellectuals
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Agreed. The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals is a cause for great concern.
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#8767 - 10/26/00 04:10 PM Re: discalced
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	tsuwm>more links than a dozen discalced nuns. jackie>what does being discalced have to do with posting links, she said with the distinct feeling of walking straight into a trap? exactly nothing. and don't go walking discalced near any traps. --- how many posts would Emily Post post if Emily Post could post posts?!
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#8768 - 10/26/00 04:14 PM Re: Mogambo
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409	Actually it was the use of "none of which" that prompted my jocular correction. I understood the phrase "Jack squat", and greatly appreciated the bowdlerisation. Since it seems that "Jack squat" means basically "nothing" I read the line to say "none of which has nothing to do with ..." I am of course rushing in where angels fear to tread, as my grasp of grammar could most flatteringly be called rudimentary. If I am as mistaken as I expect to be, your occupation, and my Mickey heritage would seem to make mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa doubly apt.
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#8769 - 10/26/00 07:28 PM Re: Intellectuals
FishonaBike veteran Registered: 10/11/00 Posts: 1346 Loc: Sussex, England	The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
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#8770 - 10/26/00 11:37 PM Re: Intellectuals
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus, et dimissis peccatis, perducat vos ad vitam aeternam. Amen.
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