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slcboston said:

Do I get paid for this?

At the very least, do I get to wear the cool suit and shades? And the earwig?

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You get the shades and one meal a week. You like clover, right?

Glad you got sorted June.

I am going to bed. Helpful phone people are not that helpful. If the job description is to be helpful, one should be helpful. Amiright?

Kricket said:

I've been waiting all day for you to see that. And I do still <3 you CM!

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Less-than-three-2.

slcboston said:

Can we not trigger flashbacks to senior year English and one of the most boring books ever put to paper?

Please?

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Ditto.

CobraMisfit said:

Less-than-three-2.

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*gets warm fuzzy feeling* Aww!

Fenika said:

You get the shades and one meal a week. You like clover, right?

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I need to feed more than once a week.

Just saying.

*turns down job*

CobraMisfit said:

Less-than-three-2.

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I must thank the internet for finally allowing me to remember which symbol is the less than symbol, and which is the greater than. Because prior to this, I've never been able to remember which was which.

zanzjan said:

Hmmm. So much for New Englanders as well, then. We have place names slike Worcester ("WOOHstah") and Gloucester ("GLAHstah"), and yes, a Leicester, mixed with native American names spelled like British names, like Cochituate ("kuhCHICHewit", always said very quickly), Mashpee, Chicopee, Mattapoisett, etc., just right here in Massachusetts. And of course we have the town of Athol, which is invariably pronounced differently by non-residents, such that you'd swear they had a lisp.

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I feel your pain. The road I grew up by was named Opossum Hollow (no, I'm not kidding); it's pronounced "Possum Holler." EVERYTHING that ends in "ow" is pronounced "er." Hollow, yellow, pillow. Then there is the syllable thing. Words like "bear" and "four" and "car" and "dog" have two, count 'em, TWO syllables. You can tell who's from KY and who's not (and what part of the state they're from) by how they pronounce the name of the city of Louisville (in our area, it's pronounced "Loo'vull").

Then there's the city of Ironton. If you're from anywhere else, that place name has actual consonants in it. Here? It's pronounced "Ar'n," with a glottal stop there in the middle to make it two syllables.

My brief foray into Chinese was derailed nearly instantly by the tones. OTOH, I got four years on intensive Japanese under my belt in college w/o too much problems. Aaaaand then went to France, where it was not especially useful. Haven't used it since, forgotten almost all of it. Woe!

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A friend of the family is trying to teach me Cantonese. She says that I have a terrific ear, and that I am the best white person she's ever heard for grasping the tonal qualities. Unfortunately, I have NO FRICKING CLUE how I'm doing it. I don't hear them at all, and am only parroting back what she's doing.

In other news, my youngest child informed me only a few minutes ago that he has a date this weekend. His first date!


I'm so happy for him!

The girl's name is Destiny. But I'm not going to read anything into that. Of course not.....

zanzjan said:

My brief foray into Chinese was derailed nearly instantly by the tones. OTOH, I got four years on intensive Japanese under my belt in college w/o too much problems. Aaaaand then went to France, where it was not especially useful. Haven't used it since, forgotten almost all of it. Woe!

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I've dabbled in Japanese, which hasn't been too bad, except for learning Kanji. All the little symbols look the same to me.

Though I should say that the syllabaries weren't bad.

I have just ingested a giant cupcake.

now I'm going to read.

bettielee said:

I have just ingested a giant cupcake.

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This is one of the most beautiful lines I've ever read.

Kricket said:

And I am not surprised about the dyslexia thing. I've also heard that English is one of the hardest languages to learn as a second language. Is this true? *looks at foreign language speaking people*

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It's not. Over here, it's actually considered one of the easiest languages to learn, and that is taking into account German, which is relatively close to Dutch. Maybe that's because Dutch itself is a horror language

Another one that gets the easy nod is Spanish. That said, I would assume that whether or not a language is easy to learn mostly depends on the geographical location of the student and his or her native language.

Two more British English examples - "Featherstonehaugh" pronounced "Fanshaw" and "Cholmondely" pronounced "Chumley".

Mind you, my prize for the most unpronouncable place name I've ever come across is the Polish town of Wrzeszcz.

We have some interesting towns in Alaska. Not difficult to pronounce, just...unlikely.

Tuntutuliak. Tatitlek. Eek. Chicken.

Continuing the TMI trend:

I got The Pill from Hot GP e2heartbe) today. When asked, he denied that he wanted to be able to not impregnate me. But I am on to him.

Please let this help the migraines. And pleeeeeeease don't let me regain the weight I painstakingly lost years ago (that I gained thanks to This Pill's stronger cousin). Please?

(I would have sworn we had a praying/begging smiley.)

10trackers said:

Continuing the TMI trend:

I got The Pill from Hot GP e2heartbe) today. When asked, he denied that he wanted to be able to not impregnate me. But I am on to him.

Please let this help the migraines. And pleeeeeeease don't let me regain the weight I painstakingly lost years ago (that I gained thanks to This Pill's stronger cousin). Please?

(I would have sworn we had a praying/begging smiley.)

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Oh yeah. He clearly wants you. No hot doctor would give you The Pill if he didn't want to not impregnate you when he seducimicates you.

This are logical

Morning gang. I got up early today because a workman was supposed to come and fix my light at 8.10am before I left for work. I waited until 9.00am. He still had not arrived. I was late for work (which is okay cos my office is cool like that) but the light is STILL broken and I have no idea where this guy was. Sigh.

Morning peeps. Whut up?

jallenecs said:

In other news, my youngest child informed me only a few minutes ago that he has a date this weekend. His first date!


I'm so happy for him!

The girl's name is Destiny. But I'm not going to read anything into that. Of course not.....

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Her mother is a moron and spends too much time on the internet? j/k

I must have bumped into a thousand "characters" named "Destiny" by now on the net and even before on bulletin boards.

Poor girl. I'd be hard pressed not to sympathize enough to let her know I suspected something was very, very wrong.

Morning

Misa Buckley said:

Morning

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Morning!

eyeblink said:

Mind you, my prize for the most unpronouncable place name I've ever come across is the Polish town of Wrzeszcz.

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That's easy. It just looks horrid. Mind you, when I pronounce complicated words in front of my family they always correct me sharply because I dont quite get it right

And morning folks.

Morning Cantinas

Tea anyone?

aliwood said:

Morning Cantinas

Tea anyone?

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I do, in fact, have tea beside me right now

Morning Cantina.

*cough*seventh!*cough*

So, we meet again, Morning. You, and your little friend Dawn, are playing a dangerous game....


Whut up, Cantineros?