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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?
4 +2 drunk and slurred
3 +1 high strung and scared

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Apr 10, 2004:
it is taken from the sub headings of Norton Simpson Frederick, "A Resounding Tinkle". So it says like this:

"A Resounding Tinkle: An Evening of high drung and Slarrit."
Nigel Hagger-Vaughan Apr 8, 2004:
No, it's definitely not an English dialect! It's either mis-readings of an original or intentionally absurd "words" to match the content.
Non-ProZ.com Apr 7, 2004:
Yes, it is in a duscussion of theatre Absurd. Could it be a certain dialect in English??
Joanna Kwiatowska Apr 7, 2004:
they look a bit Scandinavian but don't seem to exist in those dictionaries either
Hacene Apr 7, 2004:
agree with Kim, we need more context, or do you mean drunken onslaught?
Kim Metzger Apr 7, 2004:
Hi Abdul. These aren't formal English words. Can you give us a little background? Is this something someone said in a play or a movie? The more information you can give us, the better.

Responses

+1
5 hrs
Selected

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!
Peer comment(s):
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
3 hrs
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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.
Peer comment(s):
agree Joanna Kwiatowska : yeah!... maybe... :-)
23 hrs
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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
Reference:

http://www.baco.nu/drung.html#drung

http://www.baco.nu/links.html

Peer comment(s):
agree pcovs : Sounds likely. Tricky one! ;o)
11 hrs
agree Hacene : possibly
2 days 2 hrs
neutral Nigel Hagger-Vaughan : but why on earth would you talk about "an evening of high drunk and slurred"?
4 days
dunno... But it IS pretty absurd! ;-)
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