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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.2103  Tuesday, 14 December 2004

[1]     From:   Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2@btinternet.com>
        Date:   Monday, 13 Dec 2004 17:38:07 -0000
        Subj:   Re: SHK 15.2090 R and J Spinoff

[2]     From:   Arthur Lindley <alindley@nie.edu.sg>
        Date:   Tuesday, 14 Dec 2004 09:40:57 +0800
        Subj:   RE: SHK 15.2090 R and J Spinoff


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From:           Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2@btinternet.com>
Date:           Monday, 13 Dec 2004 17:38:07 -0000
Subject: 15.2090 R and J Spinoff
Comment:        Re: SHK 15.2090 R and J Spinoff

Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>

 >A Fond Kiss

Shouldn't this be "Ae Fond Kiss"?

It's a Scots locution, I think Burns, but it rings different in English
and Scots.

Ken Loach is English, so "A Fond Kiss" there is simply "[Indefinite
Article] Fond Kiss".

     In Scots, it has a heavier punch -- "*ONE* Fond Kiss".

             Just a thot.

                     <g>

         Robin

(Oh incidentally, and this is prolly only of interest to Richard Burt,
but a set of novels by Christopher Brookmyre star, in alia, a Glagow
Pakistani girl who's educated in a Glasgow girls' Catholic grammar
school, and supports Rangers.

         She joins the police ...

If you're into cross-cultural linguistic references between noir
detective and Edinburgh/Glasgow slang, with a trace of a link between
Dada and Situationist bank-robberies, Brookmyre can be screamingly funny.

                     He knows whereoff he speaks ...

         Dunno if there's a connection to Shakespeare, but ...

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From:           Arthur Lindley <alindley@nie.edu.sg>
Date:           Tuesday, 14 Dec 2004 09:40:57 +0800
Subject: 15.2090 R and J Spinoff
Comment:        RE: SHK 15.2090 R and J Spinoff

The original title is Ae Fond Kiss.  I hope the distributors didn't feel
it necessary to Americanize the dialect, since they lose the Burns
allusion in the process.

Arthur

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