Mr. Skinny
Alien Cryogenic Engineer
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I was discussing this with Reginald on PalTalk the other night.
I had borrowed the movie "Limey", starring Terence Stamp, from the library last week, and he used quite a few examples of this form of speech in the movie. Given that the movie was set in the USA, the 'mericans didn't understand him, so he'd offer a translation.
Unfortunately, the translation made no sense to me either. I really couldn't figure out how they derived the "real meaning" from the rhyming slang.
I know DeBunk understands some of this, and Reginald seemed to have a basic explaination, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around this concept.
Can anyone help? Mad Linguist? DeBunk?
I had borrowed the movie "Limey", starring Terence Stamp, from the library last week, and he used quite a few examples of this form of speech in the movie. Given that the movie was set in the USA, the 'mericans didn't understand him, so he'd offer a translation.
Unfortunately, the translation made no sense to me either. I really couldn't figure out how they derived the "real meaning" from the rhyming slang.
I know DeBunk understands some of this, and Reginald seemed to have a basic explaination, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around this concept.
Can anyone help? Mad Linguist? DeBunk?