Friday, September 19, 2008

Friday Fun Video: "V For Vendetta" in Everyday English

"V For Vendetta" was an interesting film in some respects, but there were times when I was incredibly frustrated with V's constant yapping. Sure, he (Hugo Weaving) used plenty of big, intellectual-sounding words, but in the end, it was like a big river of high-sounding BS that used a lot of twisty words to complicate, obfuscate, and flat-out mess up things on purpose. The Sibling and I often call this sort of thing "diarrhea of the mouth." In other words, this is what a graduate-level seminar often sounds like.

Anyway, apparently I wasn't the only film fan who thought V was just too wordy. V is for "Verbose"! Here is an amusing video translation of V's language into common, everyday, comprehensible, simple English. Oh, language warning: this contains some naughty words.

2 comments:

Pat Patterson said...

Better yet, use alliterative logorrhea! Its accurate and unlike diarrhea sounds nastier and malign.

Pat Patterson said...

Thank God, he didn't mention his star turn in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!