tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post5158549952431762356..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: Uncertain Summer - RepriseBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-46427586918826028812012-05-21T13:05:46.046-07:002012-05-21T13:05:46.046-07:00"χace fun Rain"?"χace fun Rain"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-31289295076206043242012-05-21T13:04:18.119-07:002012-05-21T13:04:18.119-07:00Try this: Start the video. Move the cursor/hand on...Try this: Start the video. Move the cursor/hand onto the "timeline" to where it says 0:10 (ten seconds) - click - and she says "χace fun Rhine" - Gijs van Rhijn. Click again, as often as you like, and she'll say it again and again...<br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-50251832465615965622012-05-20T19:32:40.472-07:002012-05-20T19:32:40.472-07:00I watched it and my untrained ear is hearing "...I watched it and my untrained ear is hearing "Hash".<br /><br />Betty von SusieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-34741439588648320532012-05-20T11:03:57.016-07:002012-05-20T11:03:57.016-07:00It is similar to the difference between ice and ac...It is similar to the difference between <i><b>ice</b></i> and <i><b>ace</b></i> in English. Gijs sounds similar to <i>ace</i>, more "open" though. The ij sounds similar to the ei in French <i>vi<b>ei</b>lle</i>, a little more open.<br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-8189881755183749452012-05-20T09:44:38.261-07:002012-05-20T09:44:38.261-07:00Thanks for the language lesson, Betty Anonymous! ...Thanks for the language lesson, Betty Anonymous! I love learning about different languages. The ij and the long i sound alike to my ears, unfortunately.Betty Luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634519999898307583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-4366815639522487832012-05-20T07:38:21.349-07:002012-05-20T07:38:21.349-07:00Re.: The pronunciation of Gijs
In the Dutch langua...Re.: <b><i>The pronunciation of Gijs</i></b><br />In the Dutch language the letter g is mostly realized as a [ɣ] or [χ] sound. ([χ] as in Lo<b>ch</b> or Ba<b>ch</b>.) And the ij-sound is similar to the English i-sound but does not really rhyme with it. So Gijs and Gus do not sound similar.<br />Hear the name Gijs pronounced by a native speaker: (0:05) "<i>vandaag is hie dan bij ons in de studio te gast de kersverse winnaar van het Leids Cabaret Festival</i> (0:10) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AHuu5EXzrM&feature=fvst" rel="nofollow"><b>Gijs van Rhijn </b></a><br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-72208268387310420902012-05-20T06:02:38.595-07:002012-05-20T06:02:38.595-07:00How could Serena "fall as hard for such a cha...How could Serena "fall as hard for such a charmer"?<br />Perhaps, because she had never fallen hard before?<br /><i>Serena listened, hardly speaking herself, wrapped in a kind of enchantment <b>because here, at last, was the man she had been waiting for</b> and who, she was beginning to hope, had been waiting for her.</i><br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-59890809943813917612012-05-19T18:53:51.474-07:002012-05-19T18:53:51.474-07:00All in all, I loved this book upon reread. I agre...All in all, I loved this book upon reread. I agree with you all about the satisfaction of seeing more of the hero's POV than other Neels books and the little gestures that Betty shows of his true feelings. They really made this book a true tender romance.<br /><br />By the way, did you ladies find it odd that Serena named the dog that Gijs gave her "Gus"? As you know, the pronunciation of Gijs is with a hard g and rhymes with rice. Gijs, Gus, Gijs, Gus.... Is she being unconsciously insensitive towards him again?Betty Luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634519999898307583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-63180484363292870012012-05-19T18:45:49.864-07:002012-05-19T18:45:49.864-07:00Betty Francesca, you are funny as heck. (Not that...Betty Francesca, you are funny as heck. (Not that I consider <i>that</i> funny, but just couldn't help the pun!) But you are probably right. Betty probably wanted him to consign him to a place in which not only he will be miserable, but also Adriana, who will be so unhappy that she will compound his misery.Betty Luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634519999898307583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-87432842592522458182012-05-19T18:39:43.330-07:002012-05-19T18:39:43.330-07:00About Laurens's mother, I think her malice bef...About Laurens's mother, I think her malice befits her pride if she believes that Serena had the gall to climb the social ladder and marry into her family. To her, Serena could well be a gold digger--if she can't marry one jonkheer, she'll substitute him with another.Betty Luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634519999898307583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-12332821710230832752012-05-19T18:28:28.304-07:002012-05-19T18:28:28.304-07:00Betty Barbara, my thoughts exactly! How can a pre...Betty Barbara, my thoughts exactly! How can a pretty girl who's been hit on many times before fall as hard for such a charmer as would a plain, unexperienced girl like the one in <i>The Final Touch</i> or Daisy in <i>Discovering Daisy</i>? Maybe pretty girls with experience with men are just as susceptible if they aren't worldly with it. Maybe Laurens was exceptionally handsome.Betty Luluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634519999898307583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-11770827160642032902012-05-17T14:45:05.586-07:002012-05-17T14:45:05.586-07:00I'm thinking that our Betty actually went to P...I'm thinking that our Betty actually went to Pittspburgh, therefore the reference. Perhaps to her it was hell? on earth and deserving of said bad boy?<br /><br />BFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-59826792552339080932012-05-17T14:42:51.894-07:002012-05-17T14:42:51.894-07:00Hahahahahahah!!!!
Thank you, dahling!
B. F.Hahahahahahah!!!!<br /><br />Thank you, dahling!<br /><br />B. F.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-7677791079740602412012-05-17T10:57:24.839-07:002012-05-17T10:57:24.839-07:00hahahaha...It's not the actual charms of Pitts...hahahaha...It's not the actual charms of Pittsburgh that I am questioning but whether or not a fink like Laurens would appreciate them. He seems like more the Miami, NYC, Las Vegas type.Keirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12334172370385784966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-88563880964103893452012-05-17T09:24:46.956-07:002012-05-17T09:24:46.956-07:00Hey, just have to point out that there is an excep...Hey, just have to point out that there is an exceptional Medical School in Pittsburgh and probably a great teaching hospital as well, so there you go! I know this as I regularly visit an old college friend there... yes, been to Pittsburgh a lot...hmmmm.Ilanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300942046140361809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-24746895013018213892012-05-17T07:25:43.640-07:002012-05-17T07:25:43.640-07:00Cool move on the Jonkheer's part.
Betty Anonym...Cool move on the Jonkheer's part.<br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-43948983609554595502012-05-17T04:59:26.232-07:002012-05-17T04:59:26.232-07:00I tend to agree with your comments but when the RD...I tend to agree with your comments but when the RDD said not to share his bed he really did mean that but he just couldn't say it till he was sure about her. Reverse psychology maybe? One of my favourite books out the lost, loved Gijs, Laurens was a twit and Serena a little thick and the bit with Adriana I couldn't quite work out either Still I loved it anyway.Betty Carlanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-73999086415165507872012-05-15T21:15:38.933-07:002012-05-15T21:15:38.933-07:00I so loved meeting Sarah and Hugo again! That add...I so loved meeting Sarah and Hugo again! That added to the enjoyment of the book for me. I liked it to begin with, a great RDD, a love to hate bad guy and an evil Tante.opramumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576604368249554678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-80573688236478618592012-05-15T14:25:31.352-07:002012-05-15T14:25:31.352-07:00Betty von Susie, what wonderful information! I lo...Betty von Susie, what wonderful information! I love that photo even more now I know its back-story. (Though I do think people who leave their spouses for younger models shouldn't get knighthoods. Ah well, maybe Mary Malone was a sociopath and he had put up with it as long as one could possibly expect.)<br /><br />The Jonkheer was at a party a few years back when he saw a vile married man we know hitting on an innocent (or not; not his call) female. So the J. walked over and said, "Hey, Brian, how are you? How's your wife?" I thought that was rather smooth, and a much less-hurtful approach than "she'll figure it out after she's gotten more emotionally involved."<br /><br />I suppose Gijs was thinking short-term -- confronted by Serena's unhappiness, he just leapt in to cheer her up without considering the long-term implications. Very un-RDD'ish of him.Betty van den Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462647734423787992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-26649076068518711592012-05-15T13:08:29.225-07:002012-05-15T13:08:29.225-07:00Betty van den Betsy, I think Gijs does not wish to...Betty van den Betsy, I think Gijs does not wish to protect Laurens but Serena - from getting hurt. He has to know, though, that he cannot keep this up forever.<br />And there's a Betsy in the book!<br />Betty AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-26886638600560170342012-05-15T09:29:13.652-07:002012-05-15T09:29:13.652-07:00Pardon the unnecessary colon.
Betty von SusiePardon the unnecessary colon.<br /><br />Betty von SusieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-51929402643773598242012-05-15T09:24:25.793-07:002012-05-15T09:24:25.793-07:00This is Miss Mary Malone and Mr. Godfrey Tearle, t...This is Miss Mary Malone and Mr. Godfrey Tearle, two actors demonstrating how a play for the theater is converted into a movie for film, it is from "Every Woman's Encyclopedia" ca.1910-1912. He and Mary were married for 24 years until he left her for a younger woman, who in true BN fashion dropped dead of pneumonia less than four years later. He was born in New York in 1884, raised in Britain, knighted in 1951, died in 1953. Can't find any info on Mary.<br /><br />They are supposed to be enacting:"Supplication confronted with disdain".<br /><br />Betty von SusieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-17571717752868827812012-05-15T07:21:30.329-07:002012-05-15T07:21:30.329-07:00Betty Barbara here--
The B&W photo looks like ...Betty Barbara here--<br />The B&W photo looks like it could be from an old movie or book illustration or even an ad. In other words--I don't believe they are people we should recognize.Barb in Marylandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374278685536530837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-27004319881671635332012-05-15T06:30:51.878-07:002012-05-15T06:30:51.878-07:00Betty Francesca, you sound down. If that's th...Betty Francesca, you sound down. If that's the case, I do wish you improved Fortunes. And I don't believe for a moment that you weren't born beautiful yourself, in all the ways that really matter.Betty van den Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462647734423787992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-17693616434512893482012-05-14T22:15:07.177-07:002012-05-14T22:15:07.177-07:00Love love love Gijs. What a fab guy, and is she de...Love love love Gijs. What a fab guy, and is she deserving of him???<br /><br />That is my question. <br /><br />Of course she will fall in love with him, who wouldn't? <br /><br />Lucky gal!!!!<br /><br />Lucky to have been born beautiful, and to have two very HOT guys fall for her and chase her till one of them proposes marriage. <br /><br />I hate all the Tante's in Neelsdom. They are all mean as hell. And ooogly. As soon as a BN heroine meets one, she should run as fast as her little legs could carry her. <br /><br />He would be a great husband. <br /><br />(Sigh). <br /><br />Betty FrancescaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com