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@taniwharugby When I arrived back from Europe everyone thought I was a Pom. In England everyone thought I was an Aussie (the shame - the shame).
I did meet a linguist in Helsinki in 81 who taught me how to pronounce 'e" words like Ben Pen etc instead of the Kiwi Bin Pin. Said we are lazy speakers we typically make the shape of consonants but don't necessarily pronounce them.
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@taniwharugby When I arrived back from Europe everyone thought I was a Pom. In England everyone thought I was an Aussie (the shame - the shame).
I did meet a linguist in Helsinki in 81 who taught me how to pronounce 'e" words like Ben Pen etc instead of the Kiwi Bin Pin. Said we are lazy speakers we typically make the shape of consonants but don't necessarily pronounce them.
I was often told in the UK that I didn't have much of an accent but that was because I had learned in past visits to slow my speech just a little.
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@crucial I've told this before but where I worked in London the old cleaner was saying to everyone he thought I sounded strange not from round here like. Everyone said he's a fucking Kiwi you dim old fluffybunny. His classic reply was "Oh - I thought he was from somewhere really foreign..... like Newcastle" and he meant it.
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@crucial I've told this before but where I worked in London the old cleaner was saying to everyone he thought I sounded strange not from round here like. Everyone said he's a fucking Kiwi you dim old fluffybunny. His classic reply was "Oh - I thought he was from somewhere really foreign..... like Newcastle" and he meant it.
To be fair Geordie IS a foreign language.
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@crucial yeah people didnt think I had much of an accent, and I deliberately emphasised any word my colleagues took the piss out of me about (ten, bed, etc)
I did have to tell a guy over the phone what the weather was like in the town I was working to prove I was in the UK as opposed to in a call centre in NZ...
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This is one hell of a read. Ebay harassment.
‘It has to be known what was done to us’: Natick couple harassed, stalked by eBay tell their story for the first time - The Boston Globe
David and Ina Steiner were terrorized for weeks in the summer of 2019 by a team of employees from Internet giant eBay. Here is their account of the events, which have led to criminal charges and a civil lawsuit.
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It’s Piers Morgan but this is worth a read. I didn’t quite agree with his column on Biles, but google is clearly trying to control the narrative here:
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A lot of this PR, but mildly interesting anyway.
Out of the Park
Cricket’s changing for many reasons. One of those is artificial intelligence. From finding the sweet spot of the bat to transforming the viewer experience, the machines are hard at work — A story from Paradigm / Shift, a series of stories in collaboration with Microsoft India.
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What Happened to Honeysuckle Divine? The Rialto Report
Honeysuckle Divine was a legendary stripper of the 1970s - with a particular talent that involved Jergens lotion and ping pong balls. This is her story.
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Really good article on Ian Roberts on the beeb.
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This is starting to get quite captivating.
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@Bones said in Interesting reads:
This is starting to get quite captivating.
My self imposed crap media blackout meant I had not idea about this case until a friend brought this up at a dinner party last night.
It's all very very odd alright.
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@MajorRage said in Interesting reads:
@Bones said in Interesting reads:
This is starting to get quite captivating.
My self imposed crap media blackout meant I had not idea about this case until a friend brought this up at a dinner party last night.
It's all very very odd alright.
Hah yeah we fucked sky news off this week after Kay started doing her show from Turkey.
BBC has actually been pretty good without much politics!
But this is farkin bizarre. How is there just nothing?
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@Bones said in Interesting reads:
@MajorRage said in Interesting reads:
@Bones said in Interesting reads:
This is starting to get quite captivating.
My self imposed crap media blackout meant I had not idea about this case until a friend brought this up at a dinner party last night.
It's all very very odd alright.
Hah yeah we fucked sky news off this week after Kay started doing her show from Turkey.
BBC has actually been pretty good without much politics!
But this is farkin bizarre. How is there just nothing?
Surely the police have more than nothing ... but are publishing that to keep people thinking about potentially recollecting.
Either that or it really is a complete mystery.
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The mystery of the Holocaust survivor and the Dukes cricket ball
Every Dukes ball is handmade by experts and finished with a lacquer that was created by a Jewish man called Walter who escaped the Nazis and made his life in Derbyshire
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
The mystery of the Holocaust survivor and the Dukes cricket ball
Every Dukes ball is handmade by experts and finished with a lacquer that was created by a Jewish man called Walter who escaped the Nazis and made his life in Derbyshire
Brilliant
Cheers
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A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death?
PIERS MORGAN: Free speech is dying and Google is helping dig its grave
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