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Mind your language

The uncomfortable truth about ‘shonky’

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

A reader sent in a television preview from the Daily Star for Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds in which ‘Brad Pitt leads a squad of Jewish-American soldiers on a Nazi killing spree’. The film, it added, is ‘not as funny as ’Allo ’Allo! but Pitt raises laughs out of his shonky language skills’.

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