Re: medieval english was knight ranks and titles

in article <434FE401.2BD3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
peter t. daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|James Dolan wrote:
|>
|> in article <434F2E2F.3063@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
|> peter t. daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|> |> > It's used in the film in a sense of 'super-shipshape'.
|> |>
|> |> Are you sure? According to my SOD, it means "responsive to the
|> |> helm" in old nautical usage.
|> |
|> |Actually she has quite a speech rhapsodizing over the model of it,
|> |which for the landlubber boils down to "shipshape."
|>
|> from <http://www.fakeradio.net/scripts/casap.htm>:
|>
|> TRACY: Oh, a wedding present. From Dext. A picture of the True
|> Love. We sailed her up the coast of Maine and back the summer we
|> were married. My, she was yawl.
|>
|> GEORGE: Yawl? What's that?
|>
|> TRACY: It means, oh, easy to handle, quick to the helm. Fast,
|> bright. Everything a boat should be. Until it develops dry
|> rot. (starts to cry) Oh, George--
|
|In the movie she doesn't say "yawl." Is this maybe from a Lux Radio
|Theatre (hosted by Cecil B. DeMille) script?

no, but same general principle; the screen guild players sponsored by
lady esther face powder and hosted by truman bradley, or something
like that. it should be possible to track down the details via that
website or via google or whatever.

it seems to think that it's a "script", but that "yawl" seems
obviously ridiculous, so maybe it's really a transcription and "yawl"
is a transcription error, or something?

anyway it's clear that it's pretty exactly the meaning that john
atkinson mentioned, and that merely "shipshape" loses too many nuances
even for a landlubber.


|How many of the original cast participated in the broadcast?

the big three, at least. by the way is jimmy stewart's character
really a country bumpkin, as opposed to a city bumpkin? he does say
that his father taught high school in south bend, but he's a new
york-based reporter for scandal *** "spy magazine". are you saying
that if jimmy stewart is in a movie with cary grant then jimmy
stewart's character is necessarily a country bumpkin, even if also a
new yorker?


|Or is it from the play rather than the movie?

i didn't find the play or the movie script on the web; only this radio
script.


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