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Interesting scene half cut from Her into Them

posted 9 years ago by trixie650203
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I've just finished watching all the three episodes, one after the other, in the order Her, Him, Them.
There is an interesting scene, especially for non-native speakers of English when Eleanor's nephew, Philip says they were chasing butterflies and he "catched one" (sic!). His mom corrects him: "caught one".
Now, this scene was half deleted from Them in the way that only the "bad-grammar" sentence remained.
What is interesting about it is that if you learn English as a foreign language (like myself) you have to learn these irregular verbs one by one, but apparently the same applies to native speakers in their early age.

[–] drmattdestruction 9 years ago

wow. i am jealous that you got to watch all 3. and yeah, i noticed the "catched one" scene because of the bad grammar and it's interesting that they cut out the correction in the them version.

[–] Eire_Fille 9 years ago

I just finished watching all 3 as well & noticed the differences in the deleted scenes - like this one. Your post made me think of 2 things:

David Sedaris, the American writer/essayist wrote of learning French (as an adult) in his book 'Me Talk Pretty One Day': "I went from sounding like an evil baby to a hillbilly"

I began learning Spanish at the age of 7. When I was 12, maybe 13, my parents decided to pick up Spanish as well. I remember my 50 year old Dad practicing as he went about the house and thinking (but never saying) "He sounds like a child" lol!

Sidebar: I liked all 3 movies very much, but found the sound to be too low. I heard this was a problem for cinema viewers. Came to IMDB discussion to see if anyone else had this observation.

[–] micirisi 9 years ago

I found the sound volume irregular. Loud then low then loud. I watched streaming and found my self continually jockeying the sound control. Glad I wasn't in the cinema.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

[–] rainegrewal 7 years ago

I am watching the "Them" version on HBO right now and do find the sound to be low. I am listening at double the sound of my regular shows.

[–] Waldimore 9 years ago

Wow.

It's hard to believe that you have never noticed this. Children struggle with at early ages and often use the wrong tense or create a word they think is the correct one like "catched."

This is pretty common knowledge just by listening to small children.

[–] trixie650203 9 years ago

Hard to believe if you live in an English-speaking country. In most parts of the world there are no English-learning infants around you, LoL.