Apr 7, 2004 00:57
20 yrs ago
English term
drung and slarrit
English
Art/Literary
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
An eveninbg of high drung and slarrit
Responses
3 +1 | typos? |
Nigel Hagger-Vaughan
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4 +2 | drunk and slurred |
Joanna Kwiatowska
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3 +1 | high strung and scared |
pcovs
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Responses
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5 hrs
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typos?
Given the obvious typo in "eveninbg", I'd guess that"drung" is "drama". It looks like the kind of thing you get when you use optical character recognition software on a tricky font or a fax. Can't guess "slarrit" though. For some ideas, try putting "an evening of high drama and" into Google, with the quotes around it.
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Note added at 1 day 6 hrs 13 mins (2004-04-08 07:11:51 GMT)
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\"slarrit\" could just be \"slapstick\" (a style of comedy entertainment) - it seems to fit the context - but only if the original had been seriously damaged, perhaps by a coffee spill...
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Note added at 6 days (2004-04-13 20:14:31 GMT)
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Of course another possibility for \"Slarrit\" could possibly be \"hilarity\", again working on the coffee-stain and/or OCR hypothesis. The description \"an evening of high drama and hilarity\" would seem to fit the play well, from what I have read - take a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/stage/preview_absurdist_suburbi... , for example. I\'d really quite like to see it!
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Note added at 1 day 6 hrs 13 mins (2004-04-08 07:11:51 GMT)
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\"slarrit\" could just be \"slapstick\" (a style of comedy entertainment) - it seems to fit the context - but only if the original had been seriously damaged, perhaps by a coffee spill...
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Note added at 6 days (2004-04-13 20:14:31 GMT)
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Of course another possibility for \"Slarrit\" could possibly be \"hilarity\", again working on the coffee-stain and/or OCR hypothesis. The description \"an evening of high drama and hilarity\" would seem to fit the play well, from what I have read - take a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/stage/preview_absurdist_suburbi... , for example. I\'d really quite like to see it!
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+1
9 hrs
high strung and scared
I don't know - but if you HEAR this (and doesn't have it in print), then this could be a possibility. Words CAN be hard to make out if you have no idea what is being said.
IMHO
Hope it helps.
IMHO
Hope it helps.
+2
1 day 9 hrs
drunk and slurred
Could you check the exact spelling again, please? My gut feeling is that this is about drunkedness and violence (slagit is beaten in Swedish) but- it is more likely that this is a "drunk" spelling of /drunk/ and /slurring/. Drunk people's speech is slurred.
"As the driver rolls down the window, the officer is checking to see if the driver smells of alcohol, if the eyes are watery or bloodshot, if the driver is having trouble retrieving his or her license, and if the driver's speech is thick or slurred."
http://www.gottrouble.com/legal/criminal/drunk_driving/offic...
slurred (def):
http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/S0486800.html
"As the driver rolls down the window, the officer is checking to see if the driver smells of alcohol, if the eyes are watery or bloodshot, if the driver is having trouble retrieving his or her license, and if the driver's speech is thick or slurred."
http://www.gottrouble.com/legal/criminal/drunk_driving/offic...
slurred (def):
http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/S0486800.html
Peer comment(s):
agree |
pcovs
: Sounds likely. Tricky one! ;o)
11 hrs
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agree |
Hacene
: possibly
2 days 2 hrs
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neutral |
Nigel Hagger-Vaughan
: but why on earth would you talk about "an evening of high drunk and slurred"?
4 days
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dunno... But it IS pretty absurd! ;-)
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Discussion
"A Resounding Tinkle: An Evening of high drung and Slarrit."