Talk:scheme

Can someone spilt up the translations depending on meaning? Kinamand 15:50, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, can someone add British pronunciation? Thanks.

Same as the US one. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:59, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Scheme used neutral

At 6:30 in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auufbu_ZdDI video about Kim Peek (the guy Rain Man is based on), Barry Morrow (the screen writer) talks about his "scheme" to create a movie in which Kim would become a character. "Scheme" to me sounds like a sinister idea, so I wonder if it does have a neutral meaning in the US? Joepnl 23:21, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

You are correct, in my opinion, to say that scheme in this context has negative implications, more so than say plan. See also scheming#Adjective (I do hope that we have an adjective). Mglovesfun (talk) 23:28, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for you fast reply. It leaves me puzzled a bit :) Can I conclude that Morrow is using the word "scheme" in order to express that it was not just a plan but a very cunning (and eventually successful) plan by jokingly using the negative connotation of the word "scheme"? (in Dutch we'd use "listig", "crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily" according to Lookwayup.com) Joepnl 23:56, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

I think our verb definition misses the point, it doesn't mention the negative connotations. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:56, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Do you mean this one (the second) misses the point: "A plot or secret, devious plan."? I think Joepnl has it right. DCDuring TALK 15:08, 12 August 2011 (UTC)