Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Need a pair of English ears...

Yesterday I found out there are also two videos of Maya Angelou on the
website of bbc4. I've watched them, and didn't understand a sentence in one
of them. Here's the url of the video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/realmedia/maya_angalou.ram
 [1]
I've recorded the excerpts I'm talking about here:
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fb83/maya.mp3
 (around 849 Kb)
1) "You Know, the first Africans..." (0m 58s in the video). 
I don't quite get what she says from "in the Baptist Church" to "and the
three black atheists in the world, I mean...".
2) "They would have us believe that..." (1m 48s in the video).
She says "they also think they have sex frequently and always
successfully... Not". Is "not" a sort of "mica vero", or "none" ("nòne",
['nA.ne], the Italian word)? Because that's how I feel it.
[1] Don't replace "Angalou" with "Angelou". The url of the other video is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/realmedia/uncle_willy.ram
Bye, FB
-- 
Se dico "siedi!" manca l'oggetto.
Siedo chi? Lei o me?
(da it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

['nA.ne], the Italian word)? Because that's how I feel it.
I believe it originated from "Wayne's World". There's been a thread in
this group about it before.
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* It sounds like "back sliders" but I have no idea what that means.
It's "backsliders".
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=backslide

 * It sounds like "back sliders" but I have no idea what that means.
Backslider = recidivo, apostata.
-- 
Mary

clue.
It could be:
AMN (Christian Men's Network)
CMN (Australian Men's Network)
Just a guess.

CMN 
Whoops, wrong way round :)
AMN (Australian Men's Network)
CMN (Christian Men's Network)

this group about it before.
Yes. I don't know if it originated in WW but that's where I first
heard it. I would recommend not imitating it. It was briefly somewhat
fashionable shortly after WW came out, but by now I suspect it could
seem rather dated, a little like calling things "whizard" or "groovy".
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
"Our royal family died out because the last queen was impregnable."
"No, she was unbearable." "No, she was inconceivable."


"You know the first Africans  were there in.. in the US and..  so we
wrote poetry and.. and today we are upwards of 50 million, and that's
a conservative estimate. I know people who swear there are more than
50 million black people in the Baptist church. They're not even
counting backsliders and AME and CME and the 3 black atheists in the
world."
AME = African Methodist Episcopal Church, an African-American church.
http://www.ame-church.com/
CME = Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, another African-American
church. (Originally the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church).
http://www.c-m-e.org/
Most blacks in the South are Southern Baptists, but many are members
of these two churches.
These two churches are considered more "upper class" than the Baptist
churches, in the Black community.
Joe from Massachusetts

 world."
Thanks! Now, what's the point she wants to make?
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Bye, FB
-- 
If you knock on my door and I call out "Who is it?", you, as a normal
person, knowing that I would recognize your voice, would say "It's me". If
you said "It is I", I would not be nearly so inclined to let you in.
(Geoffrey K. Pullum - 
http://snipurl.com/bhtu
)

 clue.
How nice I didn't understand something you also don't quite understand. I
didn't fail to understand something obvious, if anything.
[...]
Bye, FB
-- 
In any case, if you say 'I gotta go' at an important job interview you're
contributing to being allowed just that privilege.
(Tony the ice man on it.cultura.linguistica.inglese)

 How nice I didn't understand something you also don't quite understand. 
That's because you needed a pair of *American*, not English ears to
understand it easily.
-- 
Mary

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I wonder if I could get a pair of those on 
amazon.com
.
Bye, FB
-- 
Conversation like television set on honeymoon: unnecessary.
(Murder by Death)

 I wonder if I could get a pair of those on 
amazon.com
.
It would be much easier to understand spoken English, but I'm afraid they
don't sell it.
:-))
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio
-- 
(visita il mio sito: 
http://members.xoom.it/srw
)
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