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April 7

Possible vocabulary anachronism?

In the TV series Arsenal Military Academy, which is supposedly set in China in the 1910s, there were a couple of scenes where the words "曲奇" (cookie) and "酷" (cool) were uttered by some of the characters in the drama. When I asked my parents (who grew up in China during the 1960s-1970s) about these terms, they said they do not recall learning these terms while they were growing up. Were these terms actually in use in China during that time period, or could this be considered an anachronism? 173.2.154.67 (talk) 04:01, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

unknown submarine film

I’m trying to find this film but I have no idea what it was called. All that I know is that at one point later in the film the crew needs somebody to operate a few compartments (turrets?), and they approach the only two guys in the vessel who can do the job. Judging by the visual quality I think that the film came out somewhere between the late 1980s and the late 2000s. I think that the crew had American accents.

Does this sound even remotely familiar to anybody else? — (((Romanophile))) ♞ (contributions) 07:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

The Hunt for Red October has a scene when the Americans who have just boarded the Russian Red October (reduced to a skeleton crew during a mutiny) are pressed into service by the Russians as a Russian-loyal ship has chosen that moment to attack. That's the closest scene I can think of that matches your vague description. --Jayron32 16:42, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

@Romanophile: The film Crimson Tide from 1995 has a scene where two crew members must go into a compartment to stop flooding, and there is also a plot point where only one person is able to repair a piece of the radio. But what you describe may be common to several movies. RudolfRed (talk) 01:46, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

You can find a list of Wikipedia's submarine films here. Matt Deres (talk) 13:23, 9 April 2020 (UTC) D'oh. I see you already linked that - my apologies. Matt Deres (talk) 13:24, 9 April 2020 (UTC)