What exactly is she saying?

English translation: Want to bet you don't get shot, eh

20:02 Nov 22, 2019
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / Australian English Bangkok Hilton
English term or phrase: What exactly is she saying?
I don't understand one sentence.
Please help?

https://www82.zippyshare.com/v/86l9Gab5/file.html

- Oh, great! (NICOLE KIDMAN)
- ??????? (JOY SMITHERS) 0:02 --> 0:05
- Mandy, I can't. (NICOLE KIDMAN)

Thank you in advance.
Robert Janiak
Poland
Local time: 14:11
Selected answer:Want to bet you don't get shot, eh
Explanation:
My Sydney friend responded with

"Really hard to understand! Sounds a bit like "..... a bitch can't get shot, eh?" But not really sure.

So I answered her: "I thought I heard "bitch" first, like you but then thought I heard an "n" in 1st word and figured it could be "wanna bet you don't get shot at?"

and she replied:
"Is the character from NZ? Because that could help - she has an odd accent. Have listened again and it COULD be "wanna bet you don't get shot at, eh". The "eh" at the end of a sentence is a bit of a Queensland thing. If she is a New Zealander, then that would explain why "bet" could sound like "bitch". The NZanders do funny things with vowels.

I replied:
"Just checked and Joy Smithers the actress here is from Sydney.I can't see where the character is from as any different...just been Googling but it doesn't say anything other than "fellow inmate sentenced to death"...

And then she responded with

"Want to bet you don't get shot, eh", is my guess now. But the "bet" does sound like "bit" .

So, I'm posting what my friend thinks which is very close to what I heard...

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Note added at 1 day 46 mins (2019-11-23 20:48:39 GMT)
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and her first guess ...a bitch can't get shot, eh?

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Note added at 2 days 2 hrs (2019-11-24 22:26:50 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped. Don't recall having a problem with Joy/Wendy's accent before (when I saw this year's ago) but am now watching it again and her accent is definitely the hardest to catch. Good luck!
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Yvonne Gallagher
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3Want to bet you don't get shot, eh
Yvonne Gallagher
2oh yeah...what a bitch n*gga's shot, eh?
Katya Kesten


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what exactly is she saying?
oh yeah...what a bitch n*gga's shot, eh?


Explanation:
see 31:07 (turn on captions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ur2Arf1w4
Captions: "oh great so here what a bitch niggas shut out Mandy I can't"

Except "so here" sounds like "oh yeah" and the end like: "shot, eh," instead of "shut out"...I think Joy's lamenting the dude not having much of a "shot" (chance) without Nicole helping and recognizing she's taking a last resort type of "shot" (try) with asking Nicole for help.

There's also a subtitle link but I'm also not sure it's 100% accurate.
https://www.yousubtitles.com/Bangkok-Hilton-02-id-2071154

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Here are the "wonderful" captions surrounding the text in question: "I'm on the same charge as you just further down the line you got a team of lawyers no you got butter wouldn't melt your mouth newspapers are gonna go apeshit the government will jump up and down telling you you're not gonna execute you can change it to possession not trafficking same as Billy with a bit of luck after all the bullshit Buddhist holidays listen his birthday's probably both be alienating on use oh great so here what a bitch niggas shut out Mandy I can't I'm not asking you to do it for me do it for him a chance he's got head I would if I could but I can't make promises I won't be able to keep why not I make promises all the time I can't clean just say yes you can promise later all right all right I'll try"

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Note added at 5 hrs (2019-11-23 01:46:01 GMT)
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I haven't actually watched this series so if what Natalia is saying in the chat (Discussion Entries) is correct, and Joy is asking Nicole to look after her brother if she gets executed (I thought she was asking her to take part of the blame or something) then she means that it's "a long shot" (unlikely to work), and these specific slurs are used is because African Americans haven't exactly had the best of the luck within the justice system, and she's extrapolating this to herself or her brother. "Bitch ass n*gga" is sometimes used to refer to people because of their race, but it's also used regardless of race to highlight someone's low social status, standing in a situation, or shady behavior.

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Note added at 13 hrs (2019-11-23 09:35:23 GMT)
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RE: philgoddard's "This is Australian suburbia, not the Los Angeles projects :-)"
2017:
https://www.news24.com/World/News/australia-state-scraps-pla...

Australia state scraps place names with N-word

Sydney - Ten place names containing the word "nigger" in northeast Australia will be renamed due to their racially offensive connotations, the Queensland state government said on Tuesday.
References to Niggers Bounce in northern Queensland were removed from all databases in May, the state's natural resources and mines department said.
It then reviewed its database and nine other places that contain the same word - Mount Nigger, Nigger Head and seven spots named Nigger Creek - had their names discontinued as well.
"The place names policy includes guidelines and naming principles that allow offensive names to be discontinued and alternative names proposed," the department added in a statement.
The places have yet to be given new names and their old ones will still appear on historical maps, plans and records.
The changes come amid debate in Australia over colonial-era statues, with critics calling for greater acknowledgement of the role of Aboriginals in the nation's history.
Indigenous Australian cultures stretch back tens of thousands of years before early European settlers.
While not carrying quite the same weight as in the US, the N-word remains highly offensive and derogatory to indigenous Australians and minorities of African descent.
"We welcome the removal of those names since the N-word is an unmistakably racial slur and a potent symbol of slavery, white supremacy and violence," Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dvir Abramovich told reporters.
"It is rooted in hate, and has often been employed to dehumanise and to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes."
New Zealand in 2016 renamed three areas in the Southern Alps of the South Island containing "nigger", replacing them with words taken from the indigenous Maori language.


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Note added at 13 hrs (2019-11-23 09:36:23 GMT)
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And some more excerpts from a different article on the above matter:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/30/a-blo...

In 1973, a young Aboriginal legal service worker called Sam Watson was on a work trip in the Atherton Tablelands when he drove past a road sign bearing the name Nigger Creek…Some 44 years later, Queensland authorities have caught up, wiping the name off the map of the Tablelands and in six other places around the state. Watson was instrumental in halting a bid earlier this year to change the name of Brisbane’s Boundary St in order to preserve a historical marker of the city’s past practice of racial segregation. But place names such as Nigger Creek are different, in that “those words are just placed on those creeks and other geographical features as an insult to Aboriginal people”, he says.

“With those names, there was a certain [odour] associated with those places and Aboriginal people would certainly be encouraged not to go near those places. “The word nigger is a word that doesn’t even belong in Australian culture, it’s a bastardisation of the word negro.”

Another jarring vestige of American racism is thought have been the origin for one of two further Queensland place names which the department will soon be asked to erase. Mount Jim Crow, near Rockhampton, is most likely a reference to the US laws of black segregation of the same name, departmental officials have told Keppel MP Brittany Lauga and local Darumbal traditional owners.

What is known is that American soldiers in the second world war established a camp near the mountain at a place now called Artillery Road. “As far as we understand it’s directly related to the Jim Crow laws in the US, which of course were the black segregation laws, so the local Indigenous people are really quite ashamed of calling it Mount Jim Crow,” Lauga says.

There is a question over whether Mount Wheeler was named for “a local police sergeant who headed up the massacre of hundreds, if not thousands, of local Indigenous people” at the site or a local gold prospector, she says.

The Queensland government’s moves to wipe the most obviously offensive names from its map predated recent strife in the US over statues commemorating figures from the slave-owning secessionist confederacy of the south. However, the history wars have reignited in Australia, where the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, likened of James Cook and Lachlan Macquarie to “Stalinist purges”, amid a debate about shifting Australia Day from the date of British colonisation.

In Queensland, there are calls for memorials to paint the unvarnished historical context around men who had two of northern Australia’s largest cities named after them: Robert Towns and John Mackay, who were enmeshed in “blackbird” slave labour schemes exploiting the Pacific-born ancestors of contemporary Queenslanders. Place names such as Townsville and Mackay “commemorate particular individuals or particular events that are still quite open wounds”, Watson says. The question of whether there is merit in changing place names such as Murdering Creek, Skull Hole and The Leap – references to frontier violence against Aboriginal people – is one for consultation with local traditional owners, he says.

Watson says he had the right, as a south Brisbane man associated with the local traditional owner community, to have his say on Boundary Street, where it was “not so much the name but the history of the place that needs to be preserved”. Lauga applauds a recently-announced push by the Northern Territory government to elevate the use of traditional Indigenous place names.…


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Note added at 13 hrs (2019-11-23 09:48:30 GMT)
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To sum it all up, I agree that automatic captioning can be way off as evident from that mumbo-jumbo of a context excerpt in my second comment, but I don't think the n-word can be completely discounted given Australia's history and the fact that voice recognition picked it up when it's not clearly audible at all--it usually confuses words that sound similar, not inserts completely new ones.

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Note added at 14 hrs (2019-11-23 10:55:12 GMT)
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PS Maybe she is saying "shut out" (instead of shot) in the sense that a shut-out is a situation in which one of the parties is completely neutralized by others/circumstances, so a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation.

Katya Kesten
Local time: 08:11
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Natalia Postrigan: I checked YouTube too, but subtitles there are auto-generated by voice recognition. I hear "bitch" and "should I" but I don't hear the n-word.
10 mins
  -> Yeah, it's pretty breathy...I do hear "shot, eh," though, which would make sense with her appeal, which is a shady (unfortunate substitute they use for it...) type of thing to ask someone to do.

neutral  philgoddard: This is Australian suburbia, not the Los Angeles projects :-)
5 hrs
  -> I’m well aware, I did read about the series. :) Replace "African Americans" from comment 3 with "indigenous Australians/Aboriginals" and "minorities of African descent" and see my last couple notes (articles links), please.
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1 day 43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
what exactly is she saying?
Want to bet you don't get shot, eh


Explanation:
My Sydney friend responded with

"Really hard to understand! Sounds a bit like "..... a bitch can't get shot, eh?" But not really sure.

So I answered her: "I thought I heard "bitch" first, like you but then thought I heard an "n" in 1st word and figured it could be "wanna bet you don't get shot at?"

and she replied:
"Is the character from NZ? Because that could help - she has an odd accent. Have listened again and it COULD be "wanna bet you don't get shot at, eh". The "eh" at the end of a sentence is a bit of a Queensland thing. If she is a New Zealander, then that would explain why "bet" could sound like "bitch". The NZanders do funny things with vowels.

I replied:
"Just checked and Joy Smithers the actress here is from Sydney.I can't see where the character is from as any different...just been Googling but it doesn't say anything other than "fellow inmate sentenced to death"...

And then she responded with

"Want to bet you don't get shot, eh", is my guess now. But the "bet" does sound like "bit" .

So, I'm posting what my friend thinks which is very close to what I heard...

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Note added at 1 day 46 mins (2019-11-23 20:48:39 GMT)
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and her first guess ...a bitch can't get shot, eh?

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Note added at 2 days 2 hrs (2019-11-24 22:26:50 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped. Don't recall having a problem with Joy/Wendy's accent before (when I saw this year's ago) but am now watching it again and her accent is definitely the hardest to catch. Good luck!

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 13:11
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