Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)

> > 'Cinema' is the normal term for film places
I presume that when you go to see a film, you go "to the movies".
(I go to the pictures, but the better bred go to the cinema.)

> This would be a fairly arty term for the whole movie-making enterprise,
> as in "German cinema is in fairly bad shape these days."
Is it /'sIn@m@/ or /'sIn@mA:/? For Americans, I mean.

Ironically, btw, the only people I know who call films "movies" are
film critics & film buffs who look Americawards. (The reason is of
course that America is the land of the movies.) So the exact opposite
of the American situation.

--And.

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