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I looked at Sable Island and talked myself out of it. I was getting ready to guess
Tierra del Fuego, administered jointly by Chile and Argentina. The collision of the seas there have long been a terror to seaman.
While we are in the area, not far from Sable Island, can someone name one of the islands still administered by France. I believe they were mainly held for fishing rights. A movie was made about a story from one of the islands.
P.S. Good job by awecelot and dxiweodwo in answering the previous questions!
While we are in the area, not far from Sable Island, can someone name one of the islands still administered by France. I believe they were mainly held for fishing rights. A movie was made about a story from one of the islands.
P.S. Good job by awecelot and dxiweodwo in answering the previous questions!
The St. Pierre Islands - St. Pierre? If so, the film is centered around a key element of the Marie Antoinette thread.
I looked at Sable Island and talked myself out of it. I was getting ready to guess
Tierra del Fuego, administered jointly by Chile and Argentina. The collision of the seas there have long been a terror to seaman.
While we are in the area, not far from Sable Island, can someone name one of the islands still administered by France. I believe they were mainly held for fishing rights. A movie was made about a story from one of the islands.
P.S. Good job by awecelot and dxiweodwo in answering the previous questions!
You have it! The other island is Miquelon. The movie was The Widow of St. Pierre, supposedly about an incident in the 1840s.
John
ta >bowing<
Do you know what language "ta" comes from, and its original form in that language?
Hint #1: It's practically every other word in an Academy Award-winning film from the mid-80s. Bonus points for naming the film.
Do you know what language "ta" comes from, and its original form in that language?
Hint #1: It's practically every other word in an Academy Award-winning film from the mid-80s. Bonus points for naming the film.
delusianne,
I may be way out on a limb on this but here goes: I needed more of a hint so I looked for ta in the dictionary. I found the word Taal, which in Afrikaans means tale. Afrikaans is from middle Dutch. I would guess that ta is a function word like our word "the." My guess on the film is Out of Africa. I wondered if ta is the same as da in Russian?
John
I may be way out on a limb on this but here goes: I needed more of a hint so I looked for ta in the dictionary. I found the word Taal, which in Afrikaans means tale. Afrikaans is from middle Dutch. I would guess that ta is a function word like our word "the." My guess on the film is Out of Africa. I wondered if ta is the same as da in Russian?
John
No >sawing limb< to SA and Russia, but those are great guesses.
My first post wasn't clear - "ta" in English is a corruption of the original word.
Hint #2 - Out of Africa has a connection to the answer, but not as a Hollywood movie. You're a couple of years either forward or back Oscar-wise, too.
No >sawing limb< to SA and Russia, but those are great guesses.
My first post wasn't clear - "ta" in English is a corruption of the original word.
Hint #2 - Out of Africa has a connection to the answer, but not as a Hollywood movie. You're a couple of years either forward or back Oscar-wise, too.
delusianne,
I'll take another tack and say "ta" is from the Hindi language. I'm still not clear what word it may be from. Of course, "ta ta" is often used for our "goodbye." If from the Hindi language, I would guess it has something to do with the movie Gandhi.
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