Re: subtle-sudden solved in my mind

Posted by Katherine on August 04, 1998 at 07:58:11:

In Reply to: Re: subtle-sudden never to be solved...... posted by Sue R. on August 03, 1998 at 20:27:07:

: : From the first time I heard Hawkeye describe how he gets to can-tuck-kee, it sounded like "sudden" to me. Wouldn't "subtle" have been a little too poetic a word for a frontiersman.....just a thought....ann

: *THANK* you, Ann! That's *exactly* what I've been thinking, reading people's posts about that line. He's a woodsman - *not* an American or English gentleman. He wouldn't have used "subtle" - even being ironic! IMHO, of course.

: Sue R.

Everyone

Just to put my bit into this discussion. Each time I have seen LOTM (6 time + now) I have Always heard "Sudden - like". I have Never heard "subtle" in that sentence. It just never occured to me that it could be "subtle". "Sudden - like" is much more Sarcastic IMO and I can't imagine a woodsman like Hawkey use a word like "subtle" that way.

That's just a bit of my opinion

Katherine

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: : : From the first time I heard Hawkeye describe how he gets to can-tuck-kee, it sounded like "sudden" to me.  Wouldn't "subtle" have been a little too poetic a word for a frontiersman.....just a thought....ann

: : *THANK* you, Ann!  That's *exactly* what I've been thinking, reading people's posts about that line.  He's a woodsman - *not* an American or English gentleman.  He wouldn't have used "subtle" - even being ironic!  IMHO, of course. 

: : Sue R.

: Everyone

: Just to put my bit into this discussion. Each time I have seen LOTM (6 time + now) I have Always heard "Sudden - like". I have Never heard "subtle" in that sentence.  It just never occured to me that it could be "subtle". "Sudden - like" is much more Sarcastic IMO and I can't imagine a woodsman like Hawkey use a word like "subtle" that way.  

: That's just a bit of my opinion

: Katherine


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