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Freakzilla wrote:'The Smurfs' Get Real in First Movie Trailer
by Matt McDaniel · June 16, 2010
They've been around for over 50 years, but for the first time they're coming to our world. The Smurfs, the little blue people from comics and TV, are getting three-dimensional in a live-action/computer-animated feature film. Watch the exclusive teaser trailer, introduced by star Neil Patrick Harris, for a first look at the new digital Smurfs, then keep reading to find out how they end up in modern-day New York City.
See Trailer Here
In the original comic stri..ugust 3, 2011.
According to WikiP...D Pope wrote:Didn't JRR have a hand in writing a dictionary? I have a vague memory of him getting stumped over the definition of a seal or some arctic animal. I sure hope it wasn't someone else.
Ring any bells?
Walrus, maybe?Tolkien's first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter W.
ORIGIN early 18th cent.: probably from Dutch walrus, perhaps by an inversion of elements (influenced by walvis ‘whale-fish’ ) of Old Norse hrosshvalr ‘horse-whale.’
horse-whale???SandChigger wrote:ORIGIN early 18th cent.: probably from Dutch walrus, perhaps by an inversion of elements (influenced by walvis ‘whale-fish’ ) of Old Norse hrosshvalr ‘horse-whale.’
See, and this is why we keep you around, Chig! Thanks man...been buggin' me for years.SandChigger wrote:So Smurfs is actually perfectly regular according to the rules of Modern English; it's elves and dwarves and wives, etc., that are exceptional.
yup!smugetsu wrote:See, and this is why we keep you around, Chig!
THAR SHE BLOWS!lotek wrote:horse-whale???
Jabecca has a new name!!
)it does but he must not know about it lest it spoils his creativityD Pope wrote:Thanks Mate!
Be advised: your worth exceeds linguistic talent.
D Pope wrote:"...and more than a quarter mile away, a massive chunk of blubber has faltened the roof of a new cadillac."
! That's like a Marx Bros plot.seriously ?The SandChigger wrote: How do you say the plural of laugh used as a noun?
I must say, my wife *is* exceptional. But I'm wondering how *you* know that!SandChigger wrote:So Smurfs is actually perfectly regular according to the rules of Modern English; it's elves and dwarves and wives, etc., that are exceptional.
