No... I´m not heading for the Rocky Horror Picture Show... (Like "listen closely,.. not for very much longer...." ;-) hehe!)
You maybe cannot picture it, but: Everything broadcast over here is in german. In Denmark and other countries the would-be "luxury" isn´t given. Maybe subtitled in their language, that´s it.
Sometimes it´s really annoying, like on the Discovery Channel: The speaker starts talking. He´s in the middle of the second sentence and then the german translator starts at zero. I hate it. Really. And I don´t wonder why germans are so bad in english, either. Do we have a chance?!
With DVD we have! Yes!
I bought "Magnum" the fifth season today. Ye-hes, I loooove it. I even loved it before I met Ingo and I do believe there is a resemblance in those two (when Ingo still had his moustache, what do you think with a bit of imagination?
- I am happy he got rid of it! ... well. This is us, 'bout twelve years ago!!!)
Anyhow. I watched "Echoes of the mind" - in the original - no german. The voices are real, so are the jokes and phrases.
And Higgie-baby wants to marry. The woman of his dreams is a "lordliness", she doesn´t know - nobody knows, Higgie is a lord, too. She wants him to take her title and he complains to Magnum he indeed is a lord himself, the Lord of "Perth". Ummmm?????
What? Sounded like "Perth".
We´re still talking of an american series taking place on Hawaii, right?
Well. My ears are good, here we go, I just need to find out where this comes from: "The family has been in the peerage for 800 years. As the second son of the Baron of Perth, he is actually Baron of Perth, Lord Higgins."
And yes, there seems to exist a Perth in the UK, as well!
Awww. There is Brunswick in Australia and Germany - and the US - as well.
The world is so small!
And my ears are good. I understood "Perth" right! You know how little practice we get over here?!
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Iris, I've been puzzling over your comment about Jonathan Higgins and I'm not 100 percent sure what you're asking, but I'll take a stab at it: Higgins is a British character, and he is part of the peerage (a word that describes the system of nobility in England). He holds the title of Baron of Perth (I don't know if such a title exists in real life - probably not). Perhaps you didn't recognize that Higgins has a distinctly British accent? So yes, the character is in an American series, but he is playing a British subject.
I lived in Hawaii for two years as a teenager, but that was long before the Magnum PI series.
Thank you, Willow! :-) I was just a little puzzled on the Perth-thing and yes, Higgins sounds veeery british!
My english teacher at school was from England, too, so I now that accent well.
Sometimes I´m just not sure I understand the words correctly, so I had to google it to make sure.
Wow, lucky you, having lived in Hawaii! That´s pretty cool!
Ah, okay, now I understand. Yes, you will find many British names are also used for places in America and Australia. For example, I live in a small American city that has a street named "Duke of Gloucester Street." We have places here named after British monarchs.
Hawaii is heaven on earth, and if you ever have a chance to go, you and your Magnum should grab it. (Cute pic, BTW!) I lived there from 1971-73. Still have dreams about my time there.
Ahhh, that would be too great to see Hawaii - but I think it´s terrible expensive since it´s a real great place to be!
Ummm :-) That´s nicely said - here (and probably world-wide) we have this ice-cream-spot "My Magnum and me" - now I have to think of ice-cream! Though rainy I have still 27°C in the office (the rain for sure is outside ;-)...)!
Hmm, this is getting more and more interesting. There is an ice cream in Germany called "Magnum"?
Yes, Willow, I made a post (to show a pic) "My Magnum", you can see it here :-)
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