= Сообщение: 12292 из 12492 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 10 Jul 23 15:45:34 Кому : Ward Dossche 10 Jul 23 15:45:34 Тема : Bulgaria FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+64ac0b7a На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+11360d3c = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== ============================================================================== On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 11:48:53 Ward Dossche -> David Rance wrote:
WD>>> So how would it look if you have something in your left eye?
DR>> You would never know.
WD> How about a cyclops?
No thanks! I prefer 3D vision!
DR>> Now that's interesting. Such programmes as Fawlty Towers seem to DR>> translate well into other languages, but I don't know if foreign DR>> audiences laugh at the same content as we do.
WD> I think it depends on how well a population does with 'English' because WD> one cannot translate Fawlty Towers ... I've seen it in French and in WD> Spanish ... horrible ... But the whole of Scandinavia, the Netherlands, WD> Flanders are doing pretty well ... I have my doubts about Germany and WD> the "Don't mention the war" bit ... I'm not certain how well that was WD> received there ...
There was an occasion when we had German visitors from a Baptist Church staying with us and they wanted to see television programmes of British humour. We had Fawlty Towers on tape (as it was then) and I started playing the episode about the Germans ("Don't mention the war") before I realised what I was doing. I hastily stopped the recording and started playing another episode. Our visitors wanted to know why I had done this. I can't remember what I said but I was extremely embarrassed. I didn't know our visitors all that well at the time so I wasn't at all sure how they would take it.
Anyway, I think I got away with it!
WD> Unfortunately, I was given theatre tickets to a John Cleese show and WD> the way it was he was just reading texts from giant auto-queues and the WD> audience just sat there, staring, politely clapping while wondering "Is WD> this the grand John Cleese from Monty Python?" ... you could see him WD> die on stage ...
I can't really see John Cleese doing a one-man show. His humour just wouldn't work as it's essentially visual. (Think of the Ministry of Silly Walks.)
DR>> The Two Ronnies' humour is almost entirely to DR>> do with the subtlety of the English language with very little slapstick. DR>> Morecambe and Wise ..... well, their humour is really to do with the DR>> absurd but with very little subtlety. Perhaps that's why you haven't DR>> heard of either of them because they don't travel well.
WD> The Two Ronnies, I confess ... I do know them after all, are for the WD> English market ... Fawlty Towers was backed by years of Monty Python on WD> TV and the succes of the films like "The life of Brian" ... Monty WD> Python was a sellable product.
DR>> Sorry, must get back to Wimbledon. (Now, do I mean that I am going to DR>> Wimbledon or am I simply going to watch more tennis on the television?)
WD> Maybe you have a cat named Wimbledon ...
That's also a possibility ...
David
-- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
