| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 702.1 | subliminal suggestion of bestowing a youthful appearance? | LESCOM::KALLIS | Wait for the eclipse. | Thu Aug 03 1989 21:23 | 9 |
| Re .0:
Well, realistically, as a proper name, the manufacturers can pronounce
it as they wish.
If they're ladies' jeans, then pronouncing it as "chick" might be
a subtle pun, as in "chick" = "young (presumably attractive) woman."
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 702.2 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Thu Aug 03 1989 23:16 | 1 |
| Pun, yes; subtle, no.
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| 702.3 | at least in Nashua | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Fri Aug 04 1989 14:48 | 3 |
| My daughter, 15, assures me that "chic" is pronounced "chick". . .
--bonnie
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| 702.4 | UK aside | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Running old protocol | Mon Aug 07 1989 14:16 | 5 |
| The Metro (US note: small car) is being advertised in a campaign that
assumes another strange pronunciation of `chic' - something like Chic
at the price. I guess the assumed pronunciation must be `cheek'.
b
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| 702.5 | | RIGAZI::SPERANDIO | | Mon Aug 07 1989 17:28 | 5 |
| Japanese jeans with a French name for Chicanos in America.
What A country!
- Skeezix
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| 702.6 | Low fashion? | DOCS::DOCSVS | | Mon Aug 07 1989 19:06 | 5 |
| My friends in college and I used to use the phrase "trez chick"
(like tres chic, only worse) to refer to something sarcastically.
Naturally, Chic jeans as trez chick. They even say so themselves.
--Karen
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| 702.7 | cheek or what? | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Wed Aug 09 1989 18:34 | 3 |
| Don't forget where they stick the label...
Richard.
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| 702.8 | | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Give me a U, give me a T... | Mon Aug 14 1989 22:46 | 4 |
| If it makes you feel any better, I understand that the
French prounounce Levis as "leh-wees."
-- Cliff
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| 702.9 | Don't ask about Wrangler | CLARID::BELL | David Bell, ASD Program Office, VBO | Thu Aug 17 1989 13:58 | 4 |
| Close ... the official TV version is more like
"lev-his sankson-un" ...
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| 702.10 | L�wouisse | ULYSSE::LIRON | | Fri Aug 18 1989 11:30 | 9 |
| If you use the full name Levi-Strauss in France, people
will think you're talking about Claude L�vi-Strauss, the
famous anthropologist.
Talking about jeans, the fabric they're made of was invented
in the south of France; it was know as "toile de N�mes". Some
emigrant took it to America where it became the legendary "denim".
roger
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| 702.11 | I bet Levis employ at least on anthroplgst | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Fri Aug 18 1989 11:59 | 6 |
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Hmm. I thought Levi-Strauss seemed extremely well-read for a trouser
designer. Didn't he write "The Raw and The Cooked"? Sounds enough like
an asvertising slogan for Jeans to me.
Richard.
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| 702.12 | | VISA::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Sun Aug 20 1989 12:16 | 3 |
| re: .10 .... after all our arguments on the origins of the English
language you are quoting "denim" :-)
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| 702.13 | digging a little deeper ... | LESCOM::KALLIS | Time takes things. | Mon Aug 21 1989 14:02 | 7 |
| re .12:
And "denim" spelled backwards is "mined."
Miners used to use denims; now, it's minors.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 702.14 | Forgive Me, but... | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Mon Aug 28 1989 21:49 | 6 |
| re .8 - It's gotta be trez chick, so as to not be confused with
the Tray Sheik, that Arab fellow who made all his money selling
cafeteria supplies.
len.
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| 702.15 | What's sauce for the goose... | GRNDAD::STONE | Roy | Thu Sep 21 1989 21:41 | 3 |
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If you follow the Madison Ave. approach to "Chic" jeans, I wonder
what they could do with the Pontiac "Grand Prix"?
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| 702.16 | | TKOV51::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Tue Jun 26 1990 09:36 | 10 |
| Re .11
> an asvertising slogan for Jeans to me.
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Close. Jeans are an assvertising slogan.
To get back to the topic, I guess "chick" is now the chic pronunication
of chic?
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| 702.17 | | STAR::CANTOR | You never outgrow your need for TECO. | Tue Jun 26 1990 23:22 | 10 |
| re .16
> To get back to the topic, I guess "chick" is now the chic pronunication
> of chic?
I doubt it. "Chick" is probably the chic pronunciation of 'chic,'
though. It's pronunication can't proceed until it joins a church
that has nuns.
Dave C.
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