>>>>>>>>>>>>>A while back we were having a discussion about a cappella singing. I had completely forgotten about this, but I was reminded when browsing YouTube. If you saw David Lynch's movie "Mullholland Drive", then you saw an a cappella singer doing it the way it should be done. If not, then check out this clip from the movie. Rebecca Del Rio singing Llorando. Maybe you'll recognise the song even though it's in Spanish. She was written into the movie specifically because David Lynch was given a tape of her singing this song a cappella. IMHO, this really hits the mark.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."
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>>>>>>>>>>>>Viacom takedown victim, maybe?
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>>>>>>>>>>>Gee. It was up yesterday when I posted this. That's really too bad. It's a great piece. If you can get a copy of 'Mullholland Drive', it'll be worth it. Of course, if you can't watch a David Lynch movie at all, just skip to about 1 hour and 45 minutes (give or take). That's around where the whole Club Silencio scene begins.
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>>>>>>>>>>>Quick! Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oddg6dCB7FE
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>>>>>>>>>>It just sits there with "loading..." displayed for ages - got fed up waiting.
>>>>>>>>>>You've got my interest now - I'm intrigued (and I don't think I've seen the film).
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>>>>>>>>>I just tried it again, and it loads for me in maybe one second. The movie is a typical David Lynch movie. You can find web sites that are still arguing about what the movie was really all about.
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>>>>>>>>I think maybe our company filters are paranoid. Funny though as I've never had any trouble loading such videos before.
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>>>>>>>That's too bad. Try it when you get home. It's an excellent clip. Of course, when you come to it as part of the flow of the movie, it's mesmeric.
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>>>>>>>Warning: if you rent the movie, it has one or two "adult" scenes you might not want your kids to be around for.
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>>>>>>Funny how the meaning of "to rent" has changed over here. Once you only rented a house. A house was for rent. You hired a video or car. Thus we had "Car Hire". Over there you hire and fire people - here we employ and sack.
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>>>>>>Nowadays, cos of the prevalence of Blockbuster ads, ads on videos, etc., "to rent" and "rental" have crept into the lang. so people now rent videos and cars.
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>>>>>>Once, when trying to phone someone, we'd get the "engaged" tone, meaning they're talking to someone else. If we wanted the other party to pay we "reversed the charge". Now the human voice comes on and says "the number you are calling is busy" and the expression "call collect" has crept in.
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>>>>>I understand what you're saying, but I have to admit that I've never used 'hire' in those ways. We've always rented cars etc. We would 'hire' a cab, or a limo or whatever, but to me the work 'hire' implies a human being on the other end somewhere. So we would rent something inanimate that we would deal with ourselves, but hire something that will be handled by another person temporarily in our 'employ'.
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>>>>I think we tended to "hire" something for a short time, e.g. a video, car, taxi, rowing boat, specialised eqpt. But something we had for a longer term, e.g. accommodation, a holiday villa, we rented. We never "hire" staff.
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>>>When it comes to long term (apartments, cars annually, etc) we tend to interchange the terms rent and lease, but we lean more toward 'lease'.
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>>You're all MAD! yes, I was aware of the term.
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>>BTW You ask the boss for a "raise" while we ask for a "pay rise"
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>>>>BTW, young male prozzies are called "rent boys" :-) (which goes against the English idiom, as that's for a very ltd. time)
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>>>Of course, I wouldn't know about that. ;)
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>>What were they called in your day then? :-)
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>In my day, we would have said, "There are male prostitutes????" ;)

So when a guy came up to you and asked you if you were for "rent", you answered "There are?"? Jeez, American is even differenter from English than I thought!

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