One of the finest examples of Boob Noir is "The Untouchables". Walter Winchell's staccato narration alone is worth the price. Guest stars include the recently passed Peter Falk (sigh), Telly Savalas, and a host of equally talented actors.

The action is uncensored. Ness shoots people in the back half the time...heh. The silence is frequently broken by the plaintive cry of the Chicago typewriter.

A further RetroBoom note: The Great WWII show Combat! is well worth a look. Tons of platoon level action that I know you will enjoy.

<dakkie> that *second post* business works well for the chessforums page, doesn't it? :p

<Check It Out> thanks. :)

I did notice the changes from the previous quote I'd seen... As I was saying, I have memory for content, but not much for names. ;)

Actually looking down a railway line is so dreamy .. especially when heat is hazing above the tracks..

Anyway ! lol

Far away eyes

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"hello" <dom> nice to see you too.

You guys don't do a lot of travelling, per se, so it's an honor to host your fine comments here.

(past comment from <dom>: "I can't go hopping about outside of frogspawn")

I haven't read them yet, since I'm bone idle and have the attention span of a newt.

However, I will get to your messages later today, and read them in their entirety.

I bet it's even lovelier without the mechanical reproduction of "digital ear pixils," which is how sound is recorded these days.

<Annie> even gives the correct pronunciation of the notorious <Roman Dzhindzhidzhvllilillllli>: >>

But it's a two-way process. Some English and American names can also be tricky for non-anglophones. Luckily, I know of no chessplayer named Featherstonehaugh ('Fanshaw', 'Feshaw', and 'Fest-n-hock' are all correct, sometimes).

Perhaps AJ will help by providing a guide to the correct pronunciation of 'Goldsby'. Auto-orthoepy - the pronunciation of one's own name - is one of the few topics where everyone is an expert.

Seriously, I mean this. In English, in a cluster of consonants such as *-ldsb-*, one or more sounds is often dropped or slurred (just look at 'Knightsbridge'). The 's' sound, coming between two voiced consonants, <d> and <b>, almost invariably retains the voicing and becomes a 'z'. This would give us <Goal-dz-bee>, unless the 'd' is dropped (quite plausible) to make <Goalz-bee>.

Some might shorted the first vowel ('o' as in bog rather than 'oh' as in 'oh') - that would give us <Goll-dzbee> or <Goll-zbee>.

(Yesss, Prrrecious, allmossst finnnissshed...)

The length of the final vowel may also vary. It may be long, as in the Indian name Bannerjee. It can be medium length, as in Spassky (also transliterated Spasskiy). Or it can be short, a minimal puff of air after the consonant cluster: <Goll-zb'i> or <Goaled-zbi>.

He can't read this, so some brave and more cunning linguist will have to pop the question.

Oh, and thanks. ;)

<LIFE Master AJ: <Tell <AnnieK> I said good job.>>

Thank you. <Jess> doesn't have to tell me, I've never put you on ignore.

Thing is, as you know well, people often assume that they're speaking 'phonetically', simply reproducing sounds as written. While, in fact, very often those sounds have been modified.

The final 's' in English is a classic example. It becomes a 'z' after voiced sounds such as 'd' or 'b' ('voicing' gives the sound some boom-box resonance from the larynx - without it, 'd' becomes 't' and 'b' becomes 'p'.

So we say 'grandz' or 'grants', as the case may be. It's hard not to.