Gail 說的對！

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強盜怕聖人，聖人怕不要臉的，不要臉的怕死不要臉的，死不要臉的怕龍蝦，龍蝦怕強盜。強盜一舉手就把龍蝦扔進了滾水鍋。

『我就在這裡，將你的穢行公諸於世』~~~雄壯威武囉~~~頂天立地囉~~~不滅樓蘭誓不還囉~~~超過四個月了，連個屁也沒放出一絲半縷來，言論自由囉~~~暗巷解決囉~~~苦民所苦囉~~~物力維艱囉~~~~~~

天生的龍蝦聖崽，兩個大螯就佔體重的一半，可惜是保麗龍~~~ ^_____^

城 市 名 稱	標 題	推 薦 人	推 薦 時 間
尋王之盟	本欄，誰認為我知無不言，言無不盡？	張爺	2009/09/15 00:09:41

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I think Ms. Gail got some real bad advice in school.  To truly master a language, one has to THINK in that language.  Translation is the last concern.  I think in English when I write in English.  My French teacher said the same and he is perfectly right.  Subtle things in a language are not translatable.  You have to FEEL them.  As Robert Frost once said, poetry is what gets lost in translation.  Frost was a master of language(s) and even he could not truly translation poetry. 

People should reflect on what they are told and decide for themselves whether the advice is good or bad, right or wrong.  Now Ms. Gail has long graduated from college.  Maybe it is time to reflect.

There is time for everything under heaven, including slang.  What Bugs Bunny said is not even a slang.  It seems that Ms. Gail still hasn't bothered to find out what Bugs Bunny really meant to say:  "What an imbecile.  What an ultra-moron."  I don't see any slang here.  In fact, it is just the opposite--the words are too big for him.

Bugs Bunny and his friends all talk like a two year old whose speech facility has not fully matured, so they will sing songs like, "I am working on the wail-woe..." (Hint: nobody is wailing because of woe).  Words like "imbecile" and "ultra" are simply too big for them and difficult for them to pronounce.  So Bugs Bunny got the pronunciation wrong.  It is like hearing a two year old struggling to imitate an adult who is quoting Confucius.  Yet amazingly he got its meaning right.  This is humor.  Of course, people don't analyze it this way when they hear it.  They just laugh.