Derren Brown: Archive
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From: Blue Chip
Date: Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:20am
Subject: Re: Leandra - Jo Whiley
"and all I will tell you is it's a leTTer of the alphabet"
Sorry that's definitely a T in there.
But he does start dropping T's off his words after he concludes that she is
thinking of two letters!?
Go for the one that feels right.
LeannAH feels wrong LeanDER feels right??
And if he was being polite, surely he would have used her name once he knew
it. Rather than than keep on mispronouning it? Not very polite in my books.
>This is being talked about in the 3 of Diamonds thread, and I'm sure my
>observations have been made much more eloquently elsewhere on this board.
>
>People seem to be focussing on the Leandra, Leanna thing - It may be
>relevant, but it is of course possible Derren was being polite and trying
>to get her name right.
>
>I've only just heard the show myself, and for me, his technique is pretty
>blatant and extremely subtle at the same time. He replaces T sounds with D
>sounds. Alphabet is always said Alphabed, letter is always said Ledder.
>
>It's possible Derren knew she had two letters in her mind because of his
>question about her name (a misdirection possibly) which was not intended.
>That's why he told her to say the one that felt right. As I remember, he
>never mentions the letter A (as in Leann-AH), she does.
