LINGUIST List 14.1248

Sun May 4 2003

Media: NYT: Films: Spellbound

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  • Karen Chung, Media: NYT: Films: Spellbound

    Message 1: Media: NYT: Films: Spellbound

     Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:27:03 +0800
    From: Karen Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw>
    Subject: Media: NYT: Films: Spellbound


    There's a review in the April 30, 2003 online edition of the New York Times on the new movie "Spellbound"; in the same issue there is also a feature on the kind of real-life spelling-bees that inspired the movie:

    (1) Move Review: 'Spellbound': Tense. The Children Are Tense. Tense. by A. O. Scott

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/movies/30SPEL.html?8mu

    (2) Kids Versus Dictionaries (and Each Other) By Sylviane Gold

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/movies/27GOLD.html?pagewanted=1&8mu

    I especially enjoyed this anecdote (from (2)):

    ...Usually, their partner is a parent. Gale DeGideo looks dolefully at the camera and laments that in working with her daughter, April, she encounters so many words she can't pronounce. On the phone from Ambler, Pa., Ms. DeGideo recalled being so mired in tongue-twisting arcana that she didn't recognize the word "episode," turning it into "eePIZZodee." April figured it out anyway, and they laughed for 20 minutes.

    Karen Steffen Chung National Taiwan University http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/