When Mann orders his sandwich, he orders a Swiss cheese sandwich on rye and proceeds to spell out R-Y-E to the waitress!
I mean he's still in America, I think she knows what rye bread is!
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I was wondering the same thing, but I think the poster who said rye and white can sometimes be confused may be right. Or he just could have been so nervous that he didn't really know what he was saying.
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All that plus being a businessman, he probably has to do things more efficient with his diction and spelling. Probably a part of who he is
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The "white" and "rye" sounding similar suggestion works, but I figure he may have thought his question sounded more like "Just gimme a cheese sandwich, Swiss cheese, alright?". It kinda sounds like it, especially when the waitress repeats it.
shareshould have asked for some e-g-g-n-o-g.
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Maybe it was misspelt on the menu, and he wanted to be pretentious about knowing the correct spelling. Psychologically, it would make sense: He's trying to recover from this nightmare and get back to normal, so showing off a little superiority would help.
shareIt was done for educational reasons for the younger audience. If one didn't know any better, you'd spell it as ri and not rye
shareIt was simply to convey that the Mann character was a mildly annoying passive/aggressive nebbish. Not particularly offensive, but enough to set off a bully.
>To differentiate it from "white" bread. Since the two words can sometimes be confused because they sound a bit alike,
>Weaver wanted to clarify it for the waitress.
lol. Only someone with a serious hearing problem would have any difficulty differentiating the two.
Factors such as pronunciation, regional dialect, and hearing are important as to how others perceive what is being said. Rye and white have an emphasis on the sound of the letter "I."
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If any of that b.s. was true, it would be common for people to spell out "r-y-e" whenever they order any sandwich "on rye." Not only is it not common... in my entire lifetime (which I'm sorry to say has gotten pretty long at this point) this movie is the one and only instance where I've ever heard anyone do it. Because it has nothing do with any imagined difficulty in hearing the difference between "white" and "rye."
It has everything to do with Mann passive/aggressively condescending to an anonymous waitress, probably related to him being too much of a chickenshit to confront his own wife at home face to face.
But go ahead... triple down.
And you say Mann has issues? Look in the mirror. Your life and my life for that matter are very tiny samples of what takes place in the world. Was Mann being obnoxious? Perhaps but who knows what brought him to that point. Maybe people constantly correcting him?
shareI usually spell out my food after I verbally tell the waitress what I'd like when I order. This way it ensures there will be no mix up. He may also have been allergic to white bread and wanted to make sure he got what he ordered
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