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- From: ulma@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Re: GODZILLA NEWS
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 12:45:02 +0100
- Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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- References: <1992Dec21.015152.4241@news.columbia.edu> <16300010@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> <1hd860INN5gc@news.aero.org>
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- robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger) writes:
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- >In article <16300010@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
- >>Actually, its GOJURA.. Godzilla is half gorilla GO and half whale JURA...
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- >Actually, its GOJIRA......with an I.
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- >:-)
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- > R.S.
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- Yeah, Gojira is the original japanese title. It's a contraction of gorira, which
- means gorilla and kujira, which means whale. Folklore has it that one of the
- burly grip types on the set was called Gojira, and that gave the monster the
- name.
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- Ulrich Mayring
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- - Echte Froehlichkeit kommt aus dem Herzen -
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