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RaiLord

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Apr 18, 2001, 7:56:47 PM4/18/01
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What does the speaking at the start of Ocean Spray mean?

I think its "Me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne,
Totemo-utsukushi-i-me-wo-shitemasu-ne " but I've obviously no idea what that
is in english. Anyone?


Jacqueline

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Apr 19, 2001, 3:12:35 AM4/19/01
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RaiLord wrote:
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> What does the speaking at the start of Ocean Spray mean?
>
> I think its "Me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne,
> Totemo-utsukushi-i-me-wo-shitemasu-ne
^^^^^^^^^
Heheheh, that sounds Scottish, 'haw, ah'v got shite 'n ma' shoo',
heheheheh. Sorry, I'm easily amused.

> " but I've obviously no idea what that
> is in english. Anyone?

"you have beautiful eyes" ? Or thereabouts, I think.

Jacqueline

Todders

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Apr 19, 2001, 4:43:20 AM4/19/01
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> heheheheh. Sorry, I'm easily amused.

Obviously ;-)

You slaggin' of the Scottish???

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Stav445717

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Apr 19, 2001, 10:21:59 AM4/19/01
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apparently it means "your eyes are beautiful" forwards then backwards in
japanease, I think. I may be wrong tho.

Jacqueline

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Apr 19, 2001, 10:17:14 AM4/19/01
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Todders wrote:
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> > heheheheh. Sorry, I'm easily amused.
>
> Obviously ;-)
>
> You slaggin' of the Scottish???

No no, just their awful accent ;-p

<btw I'm joking before you all start throwing haggises at me. I'm
Scottish born and bred and I have the accent to prove it. That's why I
was amused at the shitemashoo reference, I wasn't sure if anyone outside
the Glasgow area would get it....>

Jacqueline McSporran.


Michael Anazapela

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Apr 19, 2001, 1:00:21 PM4/19/01
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You got a nice glasgow accent then Jacqueline?

I got it, and would reply in aberdonian bam slang but it's fucking
impossible to type out :o)
>
> Jacqueline McSporran.
>
>


Jacqueline

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Apr 19, 2001, 1:51:42 PM4/19/01
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Michael Anazapela wrote:
> > > You slaggin' of the Scottish???
> >
> > No no, just their awful accent ;-p
> >
> > <btw I'm joking before you all start throwing haggises at me. I'm
> > Scottish born and bred and I have the accent to prove it. That's why I
> > was amused at the shitemashoo reference, I wasn't sure if anyone outside
> > the Glasgow area would get it....>
>
> You got a nice glasgow accent then Jacqueline?

I'd hardly say it was 'nice' ;o) It's not as broad as a 'proper'
Glaswegian (i.e like Rab C.) but there's no doubt about it, I'm
definitely Scottish. Harry says I swap all my vowels around. Still, at
least I don't pretend to have one of those awful mid-Atlantic drawls
which Scottish people seem to adopt when they start to become famous
(see Lulu, Billy Connolly). The worst offender is Sheena Easton with her
weird Hollywood-esque voice. You're from Bellshill woman, get a grip!

> I got it, and would reply in aberdonian bam slang but it's fucking
> impossible to type out :o)

Heh, I can imagine what you sound like if you sound proper Aberdonian
but curiously I have only ever met three people from Aberdeen in my life
and two of them (not a million miles from here <glances at the space
left by Rosie and Vic> do not have anything like Scottish accents :o)

Jacqueline

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Apr 19, 2001, 6:10:43 PM4/19/01
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Yeah cause its kinda long to just be that....unless its a very general
translation

Rowan

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Apr 20, 2001, 6:34:04 AM4/20/01
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your eyes, you have such beautiful eyes
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In article <tdsaeo9...@corp.supernews.co.uk>, "RaiLord" <n...@real.com>
wrote:


>What does the speaking at the start of Ocean Spray mean?
>
>I think its "Me-totemo-utsukushi-i-desu-ne,

me totemo utsukushi ii desu ne = 'eyes very beautiful/lovely good is isn't
it' - (you) have beautiful eyes
totemo utsukushi ii me o shite-imasu ne = 'very beautiful/lovely good eyes
are isn't it' - very beautiful eyes are being

not that I want to bore you to death with Japanese grammar construction, but
although these sentences translate into english relatively the same, there
is a (small) difference between the sense of the two. The 'te' form is
sometimes used for infinitive (desu/da, arimasu/aru are present or future
tense - japanese has no dedicated future tense).
They may seem rather long winded because they're in a very formal form. It
would not, should you want to, be entirely innapropriate to put 'your
majesty' at the of either one.
A less formal way of saying it would be something like 'airashii me da', or
even more generally, 'haeru' - 'you look pretty'

And yes, I know most of that was totally beside the point :)

jennie.morton

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Apr 22, 2001, 7:08:01 AM4/22/01
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Off the manics.co.uk webchat transcipt

NICKYWIRE_UK: WHAT IS THE SAMPLE FROM OCEAN SPRAY TAKEN FROM AND WHY?

JAMES: IT'S THE VOICE OF OUR LONG STANDING PHOTOGRAPHER, MITCH IKEDA, HE IS
SAYING "EYES SO BEAUTIFUL", ITS SOMETHING OPTIMISTIC.

NICKY: IT WAS MY IDEA ANYWAY!


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Michael Anazapela

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Apr 26, 2001, 6:26:18 AM4/26/01
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> Michael Anazapela wrote:
> > > > You slaggin' of the Scottish???
> > >
> > > No no, just their awful accent ;-p
> > >
> > > <btw I'm joking before you all start throwing haggises at me. I'm
> > > Scottish born and bred and I have the accent to prove it. That's why I
> > > was amused at the shitemashoo reference, I wasn't sure if anyone
outside
> > > the Glasgow area would get it....>
> >
> > You got a nice glasgow accent then Jacqueline?
>
> I'd hardly say it was 'nice' ;o) It's not as broad as a 'proper'
> Glaswegian (i.e like Rab C.) but there's no doubt about it, I'm
> definitely Scottish. Harry says I swap all my vowels around. Still, at
> least I don't pretend to have one of those awful mid-Atlantic drawls
> which Scottish people seem to adopt when they start to become famous
> (see Lulu, Billy Connolly). The worst offender is Sheena Easton with her
> weird Hollywood-esque voice. You're from Bellshill woman, get a grip!

So you have one of those sexy Glasgwegian ones then? Billy Connolly is a
arse by the way, and his daughters are ugly :o)


>
> > I got it, and would reply in aberdonian bam slang but it's fucking
> > impossible to type out :o)
>
> Heh, I can imagine what you sound like if you sound proper Aberdonian
> but curiously I have only ever met three people from Aberdeen in my life
> and two of them (not a million miles from here <glances at the space
> left by Rosie and Vic> do not have anything like Scottish accents :o)

LOL, I don't speak -proper- Aberdonian, but it just depends who i'm speaking
to..if i'm speaking to folk from in town i'll use the bamser accent or to my
mum, but if it's to anyone else it's usually just normal english with all
the slang thrown in.
>
> Jacqueline
>


Jacqueline

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Apr 26, 2001, 8:09:22 AM4/26/01
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Michael Anazapela wrote:
> > I'd hardly say it was 'nice' ;o) It's not as broad as a 'proper'
> > Glaswegian (i.e like Rab C.) but there's no doubt about it, I'm
> > definitely Scottish. Harry says I swap all my vowels around. Still, at
> > least I don't pretend to have one of those awful mid-Atlantic drawls
> > which Scottish people seem to adopt when they start to become famous
> > (see Lulu, Billy Connolly). The worst offender is Sheena Easton with her
> > weird Hollywood-esque voice. You're from Bellshill woman, get a grip!
>
> So you have one of those sexy Glasgwegian ones then?

By no stretch of the imagination could a Glaswegian accent be described
as sexy!! No way! It's terrible, especially the really broad ones.
You're mad, you are.

> Billy Connolly is a arse by the way, and his daughters are ugly :o)

Yeah, he's got a castle up there, hasn't he? His ex-wive lives down the
road from me. I think he's a very very funny man, he always makes me
laugh but it grates a bit when he goes on about how he came from the
shipyards and everything - he's been lording it up for the past 30-odd
years! He wouldn't know hard work if it slapped him round the face. But
he is funny so I forgive him :o)

> > Heh, I can imagine what you sound like if you sound proper Aberdonian
> > but curiously I have only ever met three people from Aberdeen in my life
> > and two of them (not a million miles from here <glances at the space
> > left by Rosie and Vic> do not have anything like Scottish accents :o)
>
> LOL, I don't speak -proper- Aberdonian, but it just depends who i'm speaking
> to..if i'm speaking to folk from in town i'll use the bamser accent or to my
> mum, but if it's to anyone else it's usually just normal english with all
> the slang thrown in.

Yeah, that's the same with me really. Like when I'm talking to Harry (or
anyone not from round here for that matter), I never consciously change
my voice but I tend to drop all the slang. I never noticed it but he
says when I'm talking to my parents my voice totally changes I use local
dialect, swapping all my vowels around :o) I suppose it would be boring
if we all sounded the same. I've always wanted a nice Scandanavian
accent, I think they're lovely. But I'd look like a twat if I suddenly
adopted one now ;o)

Jacqueline


Amanda Graceywire

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Apr 26, 2001, 11:16:04 AM4/26/01
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> I've always wanted a nice Scandanavian
> accent, I think they're lovely. But I'd look like a twat if I suddenly
> adopted one now ;o)

Whatever you do, you *don't* want an Essex accent... My accent is actually
quite refined-sounding for my area (please don't hit me), I think it's
mainly because I'm less nasally than most and I also have a bit of rural
farming Essex in my accent (I'm not a traditional "oo-ar" type though...).
Also I tend to pronounce words as they're meant to be and NOT ROLL THEM INTO
THE SAME SODDING SYLLABLE LIKE MOST PEOPLE MY AGE ROUND HERE DO!! They turn
the phrase "Are you going down to the pub?" into "Ya gaaaahn daaaahn puh'?"
*shudder* sorry, it just puts me on edge.
~*scariness*~
gracey
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cancer, and James then recorded Mitch saying "cancer eyes are beautiful"
(ie, the eyes of people with cancer)
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