Few understand the suffering & humiliation required by having gravitas, either.
“For a long time, gravitas meant that if you were a woman you had to be unattractive,” says Sally Quinn, the first-ever female network anchor. “If you were ugly and fat you had gravitas, but if you were a babe, you didn’t have gravitas, no matter how smart you were. I don’t think that’s the case anymore.”
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Good thing "Aaah!" was translated. Subtleties like that are so often lost w/o a good translation.
Someone gave me the Star Wars movies for xmas one year and on the first disc every utterance by Chewbacca is given as AAAARRRRGH! in the subtitles.
ould they mean the Castle Cam-Arrrrgggghgh?
AAAAAAAAALLLDERAN is destroyed!
I am shocked that people can develop a taste for such disgusting food.
These ARRRRRRen't the droids you're looking for....
Stay on tAAAAAARRRRGHet.
I just got home from work, and you drAAAAAARRRRGH me back in!
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AAARRRGhmost there, AAARRRGH most there…
ChAAARRRGHming to the last.
Few understand the suffering & humiliation required by having gravitas, either.
“For a long time, gravitas meant that if you were a woman you had to be unattractive,” says Sally Quinn, the first-ever female network anchor. “If you were ugly and fat you had gravitas, but if you were a babe, you didn’t have gravitas, no matter how smart you were. I don’t think that’s the case anymore.”
In cantonese this is what's known as a "bargaining position" or "initial offering".
I would hate to see what she would do for the dim sum.
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