Subj : Language
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Feb 15 2021 05:58:58

  Aug wrote --

> I (as a pre-schooler and early grader) could never  
> understand the joke in the Latin subtitles at the beginning of  
> each episode

   Once years ago I was talking with a friend and somehow Latin came up. 
He said he never learned Latin and I said when I was in school I had to take
it.  He replied that when I was school Latin was still the common language. 
:)
   (I don't remember much of it, only a few words.  Just enough to get a
rough idea of what the writing means).

> In Hitchcock's North By Northwest (the one with a confrontation  
> that ends on Mt Rushmore), Hitchcock wanted to push the limits  
> on censorship

  He did that a lot.

> and after a few quips of innuendo, the final scene is the train  
> entering the tunnel.  Apparenty, the censors couldn't say no to  
> that!  <g>  And by some stretch of the imagination, the message  
> may have been even clearer.

   He wasn't the first, that had been done a few times in the years before
by other directors/writers.
   Often times writers would have dialogue they knew the censors would cut
out and they were able to leave in something else that would slip past. 
Sort of written slight of hand.
   Joe  
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