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Thread #163723   Message #3909287
Posted By: keberoxu
03-Mar-18 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: Walt Disney:examples of 'naff' or 'twee'
Subject: Walt Disney:examples of 'naff' or 'twee'
Mudcat member Leeneia, bless her heart, is an extrovert,
so she hasn't been shy about asking questions like
what's the difference between "naff" and "twee" ?

Using the Mudcat forum search,
it was possible for me to find the old threads with that question
and with the many volunteered responses.

What I do have in common with Leeneia is that I'm from the U.S. in an area without people who use these Brit terms. So "naff" and "twee" are as mysterious to me as to her or anyone.

It occurred to me, reading all the Brit answers with examples from the stage, the cinema, literature and so on,
that for an uncouth Yankee like myself,
the Walt Disney brand might be crawling with naffs and twees and with both-at-the-same-time examples.

But in order to pin these down,
one has to really feel comfortable with those two British words
as well as the Disney canon.

So that's the question: what can you name
from Walt Disney's films/cartoons/characters/song lyrics/ and so on
that is: naff? twee?   both?

I would cheerfully welcome examples outside of Walt Disney, to be honest, as long as they were something North Americans would recognize.

Now, here's a layered example:
For seven years, Robert Carlyle has been having the time of his life playing Rumplestiltskin on "Once Upon A Time," for North American network television (now streaming online as well).
Asked how he threw this caricature of a character together, Carlyle referenced everybody from -- ach, names! What are their names?
Kenneth Williams, was he one of them?
See, this is British, and I don't know these comics.