VLVL2 (9.5): "Our--Visibility"

[Dave Monroe]

"'Would help if--you could do something about
our--visibility!'  Takeshi grunted,  'You
folks--you're supposed to be good at that!'" (VL, Ch.
9, p. 168)


"rilly"

http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg08803.html


"full-size stainless steel coffee-spoons"

Cf.

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"

http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html

http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html


"our--visibility"

Kim, Ashida.  Ninja Secrets of Invisibility.
   Lake Alfred, FL: Dojo Press, 1996 [1983].

http://www.ashidakim.com/dojopress/catalogbk28.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.touki.ne.jp/japan/english/ninja/jp_ninja051.shtml

http://www.touki.ne.jp/japan/english/ninja/jp_ninja061.shtml

I'm assuming, by the way, that Takeshi's halting
speech is meant to represent good ol' out-o'-sync
monster/samurai/yakuza movie dubbed English ...

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