I went to the cinema while in Greece last Christmas, to see a film (which must of been aweful, coz I don't remember it, but that's not the point). Anyway, one of the films showing was "clash of the titans", but the title was too long to fit on the screen, so instead it had "clash of the tit"....
There was a Turkish movie called "Sons of bitches" (in Turkish, plural form is as widely used as the singular form as opposed to the way it is employed in contemporary English). So, in a theater, there was this display, showing the feature movies and a default welcoming title: Welcome to our cinema-theater (you) Sons of B...
yeah, that's how you would say it Greek too (without the "you"). What a polite cinema! Went to the link and the first thing I saw was (besides football, cinema and beer) wasFree Beer here tomorrow only - is that beer free always the day after one visits that cinema?
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I went to the cinema while in Greece last Christmas, to see a film (which must of been aweful, coz I don't remember it, but that's not the point). Anyway, one of the films showing was "clash of the titans", but the title was too long to fit on the screen, so instead it had "clash of the tit"....
There was a Turkish movie called "Sons of bitches" (in Turkish, plural form is as widely used as the singular form as opposed to the way it is employed in contemporary English). So, in a theater, there was this display, showing the feature movies and a default welcoming title:
Welcome to our cinema-theater (you)
Sons of B...
(in Turkish, we don't use the (you) there, so it was grammatically correct, also. Here is a link from the incident:
http://belestepe.blogspot.com/2009/03/hos-geldiniz-o-cocuklar.html
yeah, that's how you would say it Greek too (without the "you"). What a polite cinema! Went to the link and the first thing I saw was (besides football, cinema and beer) wasFree Beer here tomorrow only - is that beer free always the day after one visits that cinema?
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