:21:03
An uptown dude like me.
They'd spot me a mile away.
:21:07
Not if you're briefed in tribal ways.
:21:09
And learn the Manta dialect.
:21:13
I was 21 before I found out that "isn't"
is another way of saying "ain't."
:21:24
Aleme, come in.
:21:36
This is my daughter, Aleme.
:21:39
Aleme has come to instruct you, Mr. Shaft.
:21:48
They vanished as mysteriously
as they appeared.
:21:51
But they left behind our spoken culture...
:21:54
...their drums, their copper spears,
their beaded crowns.
:22:00
Nobody knows what happened to them.
:22:02
But our tribes are descended
from these proud ancestors.
:22:06
Don't laugh, Mr. Shaft.
:22:07
Your survival depends
on how much you can remember.
:22:10
Who's laughing?
:22:12
I was just thinking,
they made us study Shakespeare in school.
:22:15
Was he ever a Johnny-come-lately...
:22:17
...compared to your cats grooving
on poetry a thousand years ago.
:22:21
Sure blow their minds at P.S. 64!
:22:28
Our officials fall into two categories.
:22:30
Macha. Tulama.
:22:33
Not bad. You are progressing.
:22:36
Why don't you get rid of
that Jolly Giant there...
:22:39
...so that you and I can get down
to the finer strokes?
:22:44
Ossiat has guarded me since I was a child.
:22:47
Sometimes I think of him
as my living chastity belt.
:22:51
Damn!
:22:55
Man that size, baby.
That's a whole lot of chastity.
:22:59
I'm still in my first age-grade.
We call that Fareita.