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The General 
"Forty? What? Me? How?."
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 11/26/2007 : 17:20:43
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Originally posted by The Prof
http://www.fwfr.com/user.asp?id=6656
Assuming there's dancing in it, I'll vote for your Anastasia one if you change the spelling to Tsars. |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 17:32:50
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5 2's on Cyber Monday
For Carrie think Good Morning Viet Nam... |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 17:50:12
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by The Prof
http://www.fwfr.com/user.asp?id=6656
Assuming there's dancing in it, I'll vote for your Anastasia one if you change the spelling to Tsars.
Czar is certainly an acceptable spelling - I think Tsar is stronger given the similar spelling to Star, but Czar is an acceptable alternate spelling - at least in America.
In fact on the imdb page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0118617/
The character's name is listed as Czar Nicholas Romanov II.
So what's your beef? |
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The General
"Forty? What? Me? How?."
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 18:26:03
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As an academic in a family of English teachers, I love word debates.
As turrell notes, czar is a widely used and acceptable version of tsar, so the review is technically correct.
As an academic, I wondered which one was the "better" translation.
I started reading about this on Wikipedia and quickly stopped, after concluding that one could probably write a paper weighing the merits of tsar vs czar.
Then I noticed, thanks to turrell and Sal, that tsar is actually an anagram of star, thus making the review better (I think).
It's been resubmitted with the new spelling.
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Rovark
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 20:46:58
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One's in again
Oklahoma! Big number about farmers and ranchers getting on and of course gaining statehood is a part of the film.
Soccer As Never Before 'The best of times' story of George Best's life
The Four Muskateers Dunaway kills D'Artagnon's love, Raquel Welch
Murder Most Likely A variation on The Full Monty, The mountie kills his wife
The Last Legion A variation on 'First Knight' where Firth plays a Lancelot-esque charactor
Potential spoilers invisi'd, off to start V+V-ing |
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MM0rkeleb 
"Better than HBO."
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 21:17:32
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Leftovers
Notes: Stanley Kramer directed both Inherit the Wind and Judgement at Nuremberg. The plot of Modern Times is close enough to that of � Nous La Libert� that the producers of the latter sued Chaplin (and got him to settle).
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Canklefish 
"Let's Get OUTTA Here!"
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 11/26/2007 : 23:39:50
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The Rural Juror
Ah...another 30 Rock fan! |
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Animal Mutha 
"Who would've thunk it?"
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 06:26:06
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Originally posted by Randall
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Originally posted by Animal Mutha
The Rural Juror
Ah...another 30 Rock fan!
Just saying it out loud makes me laugh, "Rrrr Jrrr" . We don't really get SNL over here, Tracy Morgan makes milk come out of my nose. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 06:31:40
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by The Prof
http://www.fwfr.com/user.asp?id=6656
Assuming there's dancing in it, I'll vote for your Anastasia one if you change the spelling to Tsars.
Since he removed it before I could vote, I don't know which Anastasia movie you're talking about. However, if it is the horrid animated version, then yes, there is dancing in the movie. From the thread, I can assume that the review was "Dancing with Czars", and have used that spelling myself - "Irving gives Czar-y performance." for Anastasia: The Mystery Of Anna as well as "Better dead than Czar-y?" for the animated one. I would have voted on that review no matter the spelling.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 06:37:36
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Originally posted by Animal Mutha
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Originally posted by Randall
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Originally posted by Animal Mutha
The Rural Juror
Ah...another 30 Rock fan!
Just saying it out loud makes me laugh, "Rrrr Jrrr" . We don't really get SNL over here, Tracy Morgan makes milk come out of my nose.
Hehehe. But I have to admit that I wasn't happy with "30 Rock" to begin with, since I had my suspicions that its success kept people away from watching the superior "Studio 60" and I sort of blamed "30 Rock" for "Studio 60's" demise. I know that's not really the case now, and have come to enjoy "30 Rock" as well.
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redPen
"Because I said so!"
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 06:50:03
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Five zeroes . . . including one tribute!
One note:
The final section of "Fantasia" starts out in Hell to the tune of "Night on Bald Mountain," and changes to Heaven and "Ave Maria." |
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 07:37:27
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I love, love, LOVE 30 Rock. And even though I am a huge Aaron Sorkin fan, he had only himself to blame for the failure of the ultra-smug Studio 60.
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,
Spooky, Scary,
Boys becoming men,
Men becoming wolves.
Fricking genius.
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/27/2007 : 08:58:22
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Originally posted by turrell
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by The Prof
http://www.fwfr.com/user.asp?id=6656
Assuming there's dancing in it, I'll vote for your Anastasia one if you change the spelling to Tsars.
Czar is certainly an acceptable spelling - I think Tsar is stronger given the similar spelling to Star, but Czar is an acceptable alternate spelling - at least in America.
So what's your beef?
You've answered your own question. At no point did I say czar was an unacceptable spelling. Indeed, although it's the much less common one here, it's my favoured one in neutral contexts. |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 11/27/2007 08:59:46 |
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