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   Aidan Kehoe to All   
   Re: "Jaws" released (21-6-1975)   
   22 Jun 24 13:40:52   
   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Spot the language link?   
    >   
    > ...   
    > "the 2-note ostinato which represents the shark, a theme so simple that   
    > Spielberg initially thought it was a joke by the composer [John   
    > Williams]...a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching   
    > danger...highly recognisable..."   
    >   
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack   
    >   
    > and, as Crystal points out, used not only in other films (often with comic   
    > intent), but quoted in conversation, to signal "approaching danger"...thus   
    > becoming (sort of) part of language.   
      
   What a stretch!   
      
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