Episode 43 - Music for your what now?
Added 2019-05-23 18:44:32 +0000 UTCWARNING: This section of The Mister may contain the dumbest sentence we've ever covered on this show.
Join us in pastoral Cornwall, where Maxim and the entrancing Alessia, who's beauty, we're often reminded, is very beautiful, are hiding out from Albania sex traffickers. What do they do to pass the time? What any two attractive (Alessia is very attractive) young people would do: eat fish pies and get busy as hell.
Along the way we'll learn that our hero can visually assess whether women in a truck stop restroom look like they've been sex-trafficked from Eastern Europe, meet the world's fastest interrupter, and meet Megan, a sullen hag who Maxim of course has already banged. We'll also debut a new Review-based department!
For next time, read up to page 319, thru chapter 19.
Comments
Like racism this is not ***just*** a colonial (or in particular, "white") fallacy alone, but one found in every time and place and ethnospace; it's simply human & understandable (***not that this means it's factually or morally right.***) IIRC the grammar of pidgin &/or creole languages is similar to reduced syntax / vocab "baby talk" of younger native speakers, & may thus trigger an infantilising response in people. As a languages / Linguistics grad & experienced professional teacher / tutor of ESL, including yes outside the anglosphere in non-colonial contexts, this was certainly my working hypothesis - & I had to train myself to be aware of this tendency & not to fall for it. Dependency may seem flattering & pleasurable, but the truly good trainer aims to do away with themselves, so to speak : they encourage greater & greater competence & independence in their students, until they no longer require the trainer's assistance much - or, possibly, at all.
Luke Yates
2022-11-22 16:10:28 +0000 UTCYou mean like the way she still thinks of him as "The Mister... MY Mister" instead of "Maxim" even after they've er, gotten to know each other pretty well?
Kerry S.
2019-05-30 10:11:35 +0000 UTCIn india they tilt their heads side to side for yes and for “I’m understanding you”. Takes a while to stop seeing it as sort of bobblehead and then when you get home you are doing it a month after yourself
M Williams
2019-05-25 20:18:24 +0000 UTCI just realized the conceit that is annoying me the most. It is the colonialist sort of ideal that because your second language skills are limited that means your thinking is equally simpleton.
M Williams
2019-05-25 20:16:40 +0000 UTCYears ago, I worked with a team of people in Bulgaria. They came to visit us in the United States once, and I found out that Bulgarians, too, shake their heads for yes and nod for no.
Jessica Lachewitz
2019-05-25 14:02:57 +0000 UTCGuys, I just saw the word "goin'" (as in "what's goin' on?") and thought it said "groin." So that's great.
LeRenardRoux
2019-05-24 03:35:12 +0000 UTCA few years ago I read that some actress went through some embarrassment after tweeting something like "Every hero must have his Beowulf," because she thought Beowulf was the villain in the story, which made this thought pop into my mind. I could be wrong. Maybe E.L. is just a big fan of Gremlins, The Burbs, Small Soldiers, et al.
Kerry S.
2019-05-23 23:02:28 +0000 UTCAre you KIDDING??? That's what makes it realistic and keeps me turning the pages!
Kerry S.
2019-05-23 23:01:18 +0000 UTCTwo thoughts. 1) translucent cheek! (oops, I thought Eye of Argon's tavern wench had translucent cheeks, too, but she had opaque cheeks/nose) 2) when she chose the villain's name, what are the chances that it was because she thought "Dante" was the name of the bad guy (ie, Satan) in "Dante's Inferno"?
Kerry S.
2019-05-23 23:00:29 +0000 UTCPhallus Terminology: https://annomalley.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/writing-erotica1/
Emma Schroeder
2019-05-23 22:21:57 +0000 UTCThe best part of this section is that the plot finally moves on from housecleaning. The worst part is that 14 chapters later, they're still doing the stupid "she likes me, she doesn't like me" bullshit.
RotoLando
2019-05-23 18:57:28 +0000 UTC
