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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: Alfred Hitchcock died (29-4-1980)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:29:59 +0100
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 Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > First Hitchcock film I ever saw: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). James
 > Stewart and Doris Day.

Great director and a film I haven’t seen, must correct that.

 > In the Moroccan Embassy in London, Doris sings "Que Sera Sera". She looks
 > very serious in the picture; her son is being held hostage somewhere in the
 > embassy, and she is trying to use the song to make contact with him. It was
 > a brand new song at the time, first performance in this film. OK, here's a
 > bit of language trivia: What is the origin of the phrase and what language
 > is it supposed to be? Read more here:
 > 
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)

A bad translation with very strong cultural currency; I can’t off the top of my
head think of any other examples of this, though I’m sure they are some.

-- 
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How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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