XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 6/22/2024 5:40 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   >   
   >   Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:   
   >   
   >   > Spot the language link?   
   >   >   
   >   > ...   
   >   > "the 2-note ostinato which represents the shark, a theme so simple that   
   >   > Spielberg initially thought it was a joke by the composer [John   
   >   > Williams]...a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with   
   approaching   
   >   > danger...highly recognisable..."   
   >   >   
   >   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack   
   >   >   
   >   > and, as Crystal points out, used not only in other films (often with   
   comic   
   >   > intent), but quoted in conversation, to signal "approaching   
   danger"...thus   
   >   > becoming (sort of) part of language.   
   >   
   > What a stretch!   
   >   
      
   not a stretch at all....   
      
     i'd say (today)   the Opening theme music of  Terminator (film)   
                          is even more recognizable (recognized)  in japan   
      
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