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The way MacArthur said his line -- if you had the recorded transcript of a professional linguist -- would probably have gone like this: Af Primary stresses on emeralds and wish ; ;
note pitch 3 ( pretty high ) on emeralds but with a slight degree of drawl, one degree of oversoftness.
Conclusions: The people involved ( and subsequent facts bear me out here ) knew clearly the relative values of peanuts and emeralds, both monetary and sentimental.
And the drawling, oversoft voice of flirtation, though fairly overt, was still well within the prescribed gambit of their culture.

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