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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2010Morrison: this/that a way
Hello: "this a way/that a way" seem dialect, right? --- [The hunting party spreads for the kill] "We'll head this a way and circle over by the gulch. Don't shoot no bears, now." Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p. 273 --- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > --- > -- Yes > Thanks. > Marius Hancu > > "this a way/that a way" > > seem dialect, right? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Yes Thanks. Marius Hancu >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Yes FYI.... <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j2B-sT8rKM> <http://www.whosdatedwho.com/topic/7127/ha-ha-this-a-way.htm> <http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:qtIltw5qsNAJ:www.songsforteaching.com /animalsongs/thethreelittlepigs.htm+ha+ha+this+a+way+lyrics&cd=11&hl=en&c t=clnk&gl=uk> <http://www.lyrics.com/ha-ha-this-a-way-t-837694-lyrics-leadbelly.html>  SignatureIan >>> Hello: >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > t=clnk&gl=uk> > <http://www.lyrics.com/ha-ha-this-a-way-t-837694-lyrics-leadbelly.html> I remember enjoying this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043371/ (/Callaway Went Thataway/) SignatureFrank ess >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p. 273 >--- I would expect "thisaway". Anyone who went to the Saturday morning oater movies is quite familiar with "thisaway" and "thataway". You can break it up into three sections or hyphenate it in print, but it is said as a single word. Careful, though, in deciding that this is a term of dialect of the group you are reading about. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I would expect "thisaway". Anyone who went to the Saturday morning > oater movies is quite familiar with "thisaway" and "thataway". Oater? SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >>> Hello: >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Oater? Westerns, cowboy movies, and probably not the best of that movie genre. Maybe the best actors were the horses! SignatureCheryl >>>> Hello: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >Westerns, cowboy movies, aka "horse operas". Horses eat oats. > and probably not the best of that movie genre. >Maybe the best actors were the horses! SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >>> Hello: >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >Oater? Cowboy movie. Often serials. Sometimes called "horse operas". SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >>> Hello: >>> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Oater? A common answer in some crossword puzzles. My experience of the Saturday movies (No, not in the a.m., but it may have been different in Tony's area) was that they were serials. Short bursts of film for a nickel a kid. Flash Gordon and gangster movies were also popular. If I recall, Whip Wilson and Lash LaRue were stars in the old '40s cowboy serials. And it might be that the "Bowery Boys" descended from that genre (although I know at least some of those characters came from the "Dead End" movie, and they were called "the Dead End Kids", and then "the East Side Kids"). I can recall a high school English text (or reader) that had Whitey from "the East Side Kids" in a photo. >>>> Hello: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > then "the East Side Kids"). I can recall a high school English text (or > reader) that had Whitey from "the East Side Kids" in a photo. The Dead End Kids debuted in the Bogart/Cagney/O'Brien movie 'Angels With Dirty Faces' a classic Cagney gangster flick. >>>>> Hello: >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > The Dead End Kids debuted in the Bogart/Cagney/O'Brien movie 'Angels > With Dirty Faces' a classic Cagney gangster flick. Oh, and not in the film "Dead End"? A classic Bogey movie? Dead End (1937) Gangster Baby Face Martin goes back to the East Side street where he grew up to see his mother, who denounces him as a murderer, and his childhood girlfriend who is now a streetwalker. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu} The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Their antics, some funny, some vicious, alternate with subplots: unemployed architect Dave is torn between Drina, sweet but equally poor, and Kay, a rich man's mistress; gangster Baby Face Martin returns to his old neighborhood and finds that nobody is glad to see him. Then violent crime, both juvenile and adult, impacts the neighborhood and its people. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029870/ Angels with Dirty Faces came out in 1938. Besides giving them the name, Dead End had and actress named Wendy Barrie. So there! (Oh, Bogie was a baddie, and Joel McCrea a good guy) >>>>>> Hello: >>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >childhood girlfriend who is now a streetwalker. Written by Ed Stephan >{stephan@cc.wwu.edu} According to IMDB "Dead End" starred Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall, who were also the two key players of "The Bowery Boys" in "Angels with Dirty Faces". Gorcey was the short one with the gruff voice and battered hat, with which he was always hitting the tall, goofy Hall. >The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, >overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Their antics, some funny, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >good guy) > SignatureRobin (BrE) Herts, England |
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