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>>>how much i wanted then to have a show, have these photographs

reproduced, hoped that the magazines would publish them. in due time

all this has happened. but that wasn't IT either. young people and

students picked up THE AMERICANS. they recognized and understood my

language. they listened to voices that had no part in the "SYSTEM."

aware of hipocrisy around them, dissatisfied with slogans from

preachers and patriots, they began to question everything.

 

THE AMERICANS became for many an affirmation of what they felt about

their country...that's what i cherish the most.<<<

 

---robert frank---

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Hard to imagine the TIME and the PLACE ('The Americans' (the book)) - for me. But I have to give maximum *props* to the guy.<p/>

He is an elder, here to give advice and teach to those who resonate, why not access this if within (and able to...) his vicinity?

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"Hard to imagine the TIME and the PLACE ('The Americans' (the book)) - for me. But I have to give maximum *props* to the guy. He is an elder, here to give advice and teach to those who resonate, why not access this if within (and able to...) his vicinity?"

 

Would someone care to translate the above into English?

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"Hard to imagine the TIME and the PLACE ('The Americans' (the book)) -for me. But I have to give maximum *props* to the guy. He is an elder, here to give advice and teach to those who resonate, why not access this if within (and able to...) his vicinity?" Nicholas

 

Let me try to figure it out since I think I may share Nicholas' sentiment:

 

Nicholas is too young to have experienced what The Americans is all about, in time or place. I'm not sure what is meant by *props* but I think the last statement refers to the vast experiences Robert Frank has to share with us now if he would write them down or sit with interested persons and chat about what it was like at his peak.

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Great picture. (I take it this was taken in New York?) I agree, it would be interesting to see what's in those boxes.<P>

 

<I>He is an elder, here to give advice and teach</I><P>

 

I have the feeling he has been an elder since he was quite young - one of those who had to grow into himself. Some of the most helpful advice I've yet seen comes from him. He ends one of his books with the words, "Always keep an iron in the fire, brother."

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Ugh. I'm just reading Churchill's biography of Marlborough which is written in rich and expressive English; and it's depressing to see someone limiting himself to an inarticulate form of expression like the posting above which is not even representative of hip-hop, which is a type of poetry, some of it inventive and witty.
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  • 3 years later...

Mitch,

 

Although I am not a linguist by profession, I did spend quite a long time studying linguistics. I would like to know the basis for your statement. Why is one lexical element "richer" than another. There is nothing lacking in the expression, "props." To native speakers it conveys plenty. It probably connotes far more than many of the richer expressions cited above. Any judgements about its position in some sort of imagined hierarchy are simply political.

 

Jonas

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