teletubby language
CBartels
where the teletubbies are supposed to be napping and Po goes outside to
ride on his scooter? We don't allow bad language in our home but I was
really disturbed when it sounded like Po was saying "faggot, faggot,
faggot," while riding his scooter. I e-mailed the producer with my
concern and the explanation I received was that the actress that plays
Po is Cantonese and that she uses the Cantonese word for quickly which
is fidit. She also uses the Cantonese word for slowly which is mar mar
mon. I e-mailed her back and told her that I didn't have a problem
with that because I have many friends that are of different ethnic
backgrounds but that the fact remained that it still sounds like a
derogatory term that is being used and I wish they would have
recognized this in the editing process and allowed her to use a
different word. I am very upset with PBS right now and wonder if any
other parents are too. Please let me know or log on to PBS.com and
scroll down to get the e-mail address for the teletubby producers to
send your concerns for this episode also. Maybe if enough concerned
parents do this we can get this changed for our own childrens good.
THANK YOU!
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parents that would Allow the word fagot to be said in their house
hold....although some people might, I don't. We all know that Po is not
saying fagot and personally it has never ever even passed through my mind
that, that is what she was saying.....PBS did nothing wrong. Po speaks a
different language at times. Big deal. If you were Cantonese you would not
have a problem with it. And I know that you are not and you do, but I think
it is pretty neat having another language in a childrens show like this.
That our children can know how to say quickly and slowly in Cantonese. Your
child doesn't know what Po is saying but you can teach your child.
Now will this "what is Po saying" stuf ever end!!!??!!
BrandyKitt
In article <G8Lp2.1129$QU6.46...@c01read10.service.talkway.com>, "CBartels"
<mu...@aol.com> writes:
>I am a concerned parent and wonder if any other parents saw the episode
>where the teletubbies are supposed to be napping and Po goes outside to
>ride on his scooter? We don't allow bad language in our home but I was
>really disturbed when it sounded like Po was saying "faggot, faggot,
>faggot," while riding his scooter.
It's never sounded like "faggot" to me; I've always heard it as "fidit."
Evelyn Duncan
Brand...@aol.com
Fi-dit, fi-dit, fi-dit, mar, mar, mar.
Gary
>I am a concerned parent and wonder if any other parents saw the episode
>where the teletubbies are supposed to be napping and Po goes outside to
>ride on his scooter? We don't allow bad language in our home but I was
>really disturbed when it sounded like Po was saying "faggot, faggot,
>faggot," while riding his scooter
Get a life and quit the PC gestapo. If every potentially offensive gesture,
utterance and scene were removed from every program we'd be staring at blank
screens. YOU are reading YOUR problems into the Teletubbie words, if your
children do so, its because YOU taught them. Please consider that, perhaps
your possible unfitness as a parent is a concern to BBC, ever think of that?
As to being angry at PBS, get in line, pandering to PC nonsense like yours
is why BBC winds up with an excellent childrens program like Teletubbies vs
PBS inability to innovate meaningfully in this area for many years.
Guarnot
Apparently not.
CBartels
was saying. I guess I am the only person in America who doesn't speak
Cantonese. I love the teletubbies and have even defended them to
parents who say they are stupid, look retarded and many other comments
which are way off base.
CBartels
respond in a mature manner.
CBartels
parents of which apparently you are not. I am sorry that I am the only
person in America who doesn't speak Cantonese.
CBartels
great our kids can learn another language. Maybe its my 2 year olds
language skills that make it sound as if he were saying that of which I
have corrected him on the correct word - fidit. I just think it would
be nice to know it was cantonese so that our kids could actually have
meaning to the words that we as well as they think are nonsense words.
How many people truly know it is Cantonese?
Gary
>person in America who doesn't speak Cantonese.
Dear,
I am a concerned parent not only with respect to my child, but with respect
to knuckleheads such as yourself who seek to limit harmless exposure to
anything they don't understand under the guise of their children. Instead of
exploring the Po's statement, and taking the opportunity to teach your child
about other cultures you seek to paint everything with a brush YOU
understand.... a quite limited brush apparently.
John Redman
"faggot" or "fie-dit" mean. Thus it's difficult to see how this could harm
them. I'm sure this was started by some smart aleck lawyer who figured he
could make money out of suing someone.
I still don't understand why people don't want to accept the explanation
(I'm not saying you don't - just that we've seen people on here who
steadfastly insist that Po says faggot even after hearing the explanation).
The world is full of languages. Some of the sounds they make sound funny in
other languages. The German for "journey" is "Fahrt", pronounced "fart". Ho
ho ho. Sean Connery? "Connerie" is French for "Bullshit". Sean Bullshit.
How about that? And I used to work with a gemtleman from Turkey whose name
was Arman Mustafa Kunt. Read it aloud. Yep. Hilarious huh? And 100% true.
Why would the BBC do such a thing? This is an outfit that's so anxious not
to offend foreigners that, whenever British troops get into a war, it has
its newsreaders talk about "British" rather "our" troops. They will slight
and insult the British, and particularly the English, till kingdom come.
This is OK these days. It's OK to hate the English. We're the bad guys,
officially.
But there's just no way they'd tolerate anything offensive in a programme
which might upset overseas viewers. Overseas sales are revenue at risk for
them - in Britain, the BBC taxes TV sets, so their income is assured. You
pay even if you never watch. But Americans - no way do they want to upset
those. They might stop buying the stuff.
CBartels wrote in message ...
DH Slocum
German guy whose name was (no joke here) Harry Wiener...but your buddy tops
that! I am thinking about naming my next child Laa Laa...
Darin
I would trade my Gilligan's Island figurines for a Noo Noo!
John Redman
have you met Arman Kunt? And they'd look stunned and say, Sorry, your man
who???
He was at lunch with a contact once and I had to ring him at the restaurant.
I 'phoned up and asked them to page A Kunt and they flatly refused. "F*ck
off, smart arse," came the retort. "We've all seen Porky's too."
DH Slocum wrote in message <19990122185642...@ng97.aol.com>...
CBartels
people down? I was new to this forum and was only being honest. I
have since dropped the "what is Po saying" thing due largely to
RESPONSIBLE and CONCERNED people who replied. Know please drop it!!!