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Mr. Tom Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
The word "stow more"??
Hi
Madhur Jaffery is a very famous Indian actress. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. The first 3 lines of her speech (a strange reference to something) are incomprehensible. Could anyone please see this link? What is she saying about the two parts of the brain? Also, what is that word? STOREMORE? Her speech starts exactly at 1:10
Thanks,
Tom
Madhur Jaffery is a very famous Indian actress. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. The first 3 lines of her speech (a strange reference to something) are incomprehensible. Could anyone please see this link? What is she saying about the two parts of the brain? Also, what is that word? STOREMORE? Her speech starts exactly at 1:10
Thanks,
Tom
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Here is a transcription of the beginning of her speech: Well, the word that is sticking in my head today is 'stolemore/stollmore/storemore'. and it's this word with its viscous associations that just doesn't go away. And I'm thinking of this bright young girl who could answer questions and spell the word, and the other bright young people who could say what city this was in or that was in.
- Here is a transcription of the beginning of her speech: Well, the word that is sticking in my head today is 'stolemore/stollmore/storemore'.
- and it's this word with its viscous associations that just doesn't go away.
- And I'm thinking of this bright young girl who could answer questions and spell the word, and the other bright young people who could say what city this was in or that was in.
- and I said to myself, "Thank *** there are two parts to the brain.
- I have the other part.
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Here is a transcription of the beginning of her speech:
Well, the word that is sticking in my head today is 'stolemore/stollmore/storemore'. ...and it's this word with its viscous associations that just doesn't go away. And I'm thinking of this bright young girl who could answer questions and spell the word, and the other bright young people who could say what city this was in or tha
Well, the word that is sticking in my head today is 'stolemore/stollmore/storemore'. ...and it's this word with its viscous associations that just doesn't go away. And I'm thinking of this bright young girl who could answer questions and spell the word, and the other bright young people who could say what city this was in or tha
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Thanks for the effort, MM. One more question.
Do you think the transcription that you gave has a very special reference to something, but is easily understandable for the audience? Is this why they are laughing wholeheartedly at every single sentence? Leaving "stollmore" per se out of the context for a moment, I also don't understand one bit what she is hinting in the following lines, tho
Do you think the transcription that you gave has a very special reference to something, but is easily understandable for the audience? Is this why they are laughing wholeheartedly at every single sentence? Leaving "stollmore" per se out of the context for a moment, I also don't understand one bit what she is hinting in the following lines, tho
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Some is lost, but I think we get the general idea: she took the road less taken, the arts, not the sciences (which I suppose more Indian-Americans are involved in).
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