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The movie "Snatch" is recently released in these United States. I am wondering about the dialect that Brad Pitt et al use in the film that is nearly unintelligible. It is described as a cross between Irish and English. Pitt delivers several lines that mean absolutely nothing... Does this language exist in our realm? Is it spoken by gypsies?
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Not surprising, since so many movies in toto mean nothimg.
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From what little I know, it's supposed to be a gypsy dialect and therefore intentionally incomprehensible. Also from what little I know (a scene from the movie run in a radio review) the Brad Pitt character is apparently trying to scam somebody anyway.
The preceding conclusions have been drawn from totally inadequate data; no responsibility is assumed by the dispenser of these conclusions for any problems deriving from the use of these conclusions.
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Now, there's standing up for your viewpoint Faldage  Josie, are you an outlaw?? Oh, and F.Y.I. all, Snatch in French Québec is definitely not a name you want plastered all over the place on movie marquees. It is a slang term for, well, a ladies, hmmm, um, nether region  .
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here too -- why do you think Hollywood chose the title? (those boys are nothing, if not subtle)
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I didn't dare mention the old "vice versa" joke.
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