Beowolf

Just saw the trailer.


How would you pronounce it

I say BeeOhvvolf

 

<googles>

Oh, they're making a film of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf

"The most common English pronunciation is IPA: /?be??w?lf/, but the
"e-o" in Be-owulf was a diphthong, and a more authentic pronunciation
would be with two syllables and the stress on the first (IPA:
[?be?o?wulf])."

I say Bay-oh-wolf, but unless you're a gen-yoo-wine 8th century
Anglo-Saxon, who cares?

<insert Grendel-related mother-in-law gag>

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Tim typed:

Hwæt!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Rich B

OI! This is a In-gur-lish language newsfroup. Will you fuckin' cahnts
knock it off wiv the foreign?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Wicked Uncle Nigel typed:

Oi! It is In-gur-lish, you cahnt. Pure and unsullied, like. None of yer
forrin muck here.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Rich B

<sigh>

I'm too fucking subtle for these parts.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Wicked Uncle Nigel typed:

I was joking too.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Rich B

<sigh>

You're too fucking subtle for these parts.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

It's a fucking cartoon!

 

ISIHAC. Since The Great Vowel Shift, the question is irrelevant, anyway.

 

Well - from the trailer I saw I think "making a film with the same name
as it" might be more appropriate.

Well quite. Not many of them around to correct the pronounciation eh?

Phil.

 

For me it was a 30ft pair of boobs outside the
hotel window in NYC...
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3273/beowulffx3.jpg

 

Grendel's MILF

 

you say that as if it's a good thing.

 

I've just read that, and to be honest, I'm not much more in favour of
going to see it - it sounds hilarious.

hey, I bet Lady Nina can tell you all about them.

 

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Phil.

 

My thoughts exactly.

It'll appeal to the LARPers, comic readers and Pratchett fans though,
I'm sure.

 

Well - I come into one of those categories (and close to a 2nd - D&D is
sort-of-close to LARP) and it doesn't appeal to me at all..

Now if it was done in Old English (with subtitles) in a realistic way
(for Old Saxon Saga version of realistic of course - I'm not sure
trolls figure highly in most versions of reality) I'd be much more
interested..

Hidden Troll, Sleeping Monster stylee.

Phil.

 

Just seen Stardust.

<sigh> Michelle Pfeiffer...

 

Possibly, but Gaiman is a far superior story teller than Pratchett, if
your into a few loose fucks, a bit of homo erotic sex, and some just
plain weird stuff of course.

What was the Smoke and Mirrors story where a bloke get shagged for his
memories?