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Patrick Lawlor's avatar

A miscellaneous grab-bag of nonsense... excellent 👍

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Hélène Le Goff's avatar

It's all on the level this time, brother. 99% nonsense-free, I'd estimate.

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B. Watson's avatar

When sampling 60s wasteland TV, I hope you wll not overlook the following: 1. “My Mother, the Car,” arguably the stupidest show of all time; 2. ”Dragnet,” TV’s spinoff the 50s radio with the hysterically somber Jack Webb; and 3. “The Mike Douglas Show,” a Philly variety show of monumental blandness whose claim to fame is its producer, future FOX News head Roger Ailes.

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B. Watson's avatar

When sampling 60s wasteland TV, I hope you wll not overlook the following: 1. “My Mother, the Car,” arguably the stupidest show of all time; 2. ”Dragnet,” TV’s spinoff the 50s radio with the hysterically somber Jack Webb; and 3. “The Mike Douglas Show,” a Philly variety show of monumental blandness whose claim to fame is its producer, future FOX News head Roger Ailes.

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Janelle P. Kauffman's avatar

Otis P Killingsworth may consider participating. With substantial rewards, of course.

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Yastreblyansky's avatar

Czech (Bohemian AND Moravian) has invariable word-initial stress, so that’s not what the diacritic there means; it’s a mark of vowel length. “Dvořák” is also stressed on the first syllable, but the second syllable is longer. If you listen to the model linked below for “Ántonia”, you will hear the length and initial stress both, plus the secondary stress on the third syllable that makes it a lot easier to pronounce. Cheers! https://forvo.com/word/%C3%A1ntonia/#google_vignette

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Hélène Le Goff's avatar

Thanks, Yastreblyansky. Something like this is what I suspected (JSR is far better with Slavic languages than I am). But the problem remains that this is not the explanation Cather herself gives. She insists on that grave accent over the first ”A” simply because, as she explains, all words in Bohemian are stressed on the first syllable, and she never wants us to forget this when we read Ántonia's name -- though I certainly tried!

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Yastreblyansky's avatar

Ah. That’s got to be irritating. The accent on the cover may even be why I never read the book myself (my mom always told me to).

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