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HSS Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
(Something) it Happens
I was watching an episode of "7th Heaven" a minute ago, and came across pronunciation that I couldn't figure out. The story was up to the point like this:
(episode title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil)
Annie and Matt, her son, are carjacked when they pull their car over for a check-up at night. Annie look seemingly unaffected by the incident, and Matt is so afraid to leave their house. The police call them up one evening, telling Annie they have caught a suspect, and want them to go down to identify him in a line-up next morning. But she intentionally doesn't go, afraid. The police eventually reach Matt, and they go to the station.
After the line-up, she apologizes to one of the officers for not showing up in the first place, saying "Sorry for the mix-up." Apparently she does not tell him the truth. In response to that, he utters what sounds to me like "Might happens." Now, it no doubt has the s sound at the end. (I repeated it about fifty times) The closed caption says "It happens," but often cc shows dialogues with different words, expressions etc. Could it be "My, it happens"? I rarely hear 'My!' in modern conversations except by senior ladies. This is what a young police officer says.
Incidentally, the officer adds "More often than you know, it happens."
Thanks,
Hiro
(episode title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil)
Annie and Matt, her son, are carjacked when they pull their car over for a check-up at night. Annie look seemingly unaffected by the incident, and Matt is so afraid to leave their house. The police call them up one evening, telling Annie they have caught a suspect, and want them to go down to identify him in a line-up next morning. But she intentionally doesn't go, afraid. The police eventually reach Matt, and they go to the station.
After the line-up, she apologizes to one of the officers for not showing up in the first place, saying "Sorry for the mix-up." Apparently she does not tell him the truth. In response to that, he utters what sounds to me like "Might happens." Now, it no doubt has the s sound at the end. (I repeated it about fifty times) The closed caption says "It happens," but often cc shows dialogues with different words, expressions etc. Could it be "My, it happens"? I rarely hear 'My!' in modern conversations except by senior ladies. This is what a young police officer says.
Incidentally, the officer adds "More often than you know, it happens."
Thanks,
Hiro
Top answer
I really can't judge without hearing it. 'It happens' is the only natural utterance, to my mind.
- I really can't judge without hearing it.
- 'It happens' is the only natural utterance, to my mind.
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I really can't judge without hearing it. 'It happens' is the only natural utterance, to my mind.
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I ran the utterance past an English native speaker and co-worker of mine, having him listen to it, yesterday. He says it's certainly 'Might happens,' or the same sound with different words or spellings. My wild guess is the officer must have started the sentence intending to say 'Might happen,' but then he changed his intention to 'It happens,' the whole s
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Yes, I think your guess is very likely correct. It does happen sometimes that the thought will change in the middle of the utterance and whet comes out is sort of a hybrid. That's how my family got the phrase "That makes smart!" -- a combination of "that's smart" and "that makes sense."
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I'd take it as a high-tech bleeping (post production) of the obviously appropriate "s___ happens."
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Hmm -- that would make perfect sense if the result was "It happens." But the line was "Might happens." Do you think they could bleep out "s___" and replace it with "might"?
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