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In our team, there was Norwegian-born Robert, but his mother was from Scotland, and Ellen, 100% Norwegian but she had been working as a top level secretary for high-brow US companies for thirty years.
Robert pointed out to us that Ellen would never be taken as a native English speaker: Her English was perfect, not the slightest trace of any "natural" carelessness in pronunciation, grammar, choice of words, ... She was speaking with the same perfect correctness as she had been writing business letters. Always! No native speaker - in any language - speaks it perfectly without any imperfection or sloppiness in every possible social setting. When speaking English, Ellen did. The rest of us had been taught 'proper English' in school, and was not familiar with the small 'errors' to expect from a native English speaker. When Ellen was speaking her native Norwegian language in an informal setting, her language was just as imperfect as that of the other Norwegians of the team.
Regarding My Fair Lady: I guess we could say that Eliza's native tongue was Cockney, not English; she was taught "proper English" by Higgins as a foreign language. So in a sense, the Hungarian Ambassador was right.
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It's a brave man who will tell a Cockney that he or she isn't English! Besides, Cockney is at most a patois, not a different language. It's no more a different language than any other regional variation (Geordie, Brummie, Glasgie, etc). And in the main Eliza was taught "correct" enunciation of her native tongue, not another language.
So the Ambassador was taken in, and plumb wrong.
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It's a brave man who will tell a Cockney that he or she isn't English! Besides, Cockney is at most a patois, not a different language. It's no more a different language than any other regional variation (Geordie, Brummie, Glasgie, etc). And in the main Eliza was taught "correct" enunciation of her native tongue, not another language.
So the Ambassador was taken in, and plumb wrong.
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Squarepusher can get me going in the morning when I'm dragging, or relax me when I'm anxious depending on the track.
He is what happens when jazz artists go over the high wall. Enjoy.
Papalon - YouTube[^]
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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As papa used to say "whatever works".
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Very nice!
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Ah, modern jazz. A group of people banging away at instruments without any concern for what the other people in the group are doing.
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Now consider that it's actually one guy.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I wonder how many times they had to listen to themselves to get all the tracks synced and overlayed if that is what they did.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Didn't last past the first 30 seconds, whiney, buzzy noise.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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This is repeat but quite awhile back hard one requires map usage
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I try to introduce some old computer games to my nephew, so he can pick up some computer programming concepts.
I only remember some games like Alien invasion, Tetris, Card games...
diligent hands rule....
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Pong
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available!
JaxCoder.com
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great one
diligent hands rule....
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Don't forget the sheep version: Extreme sheep herding. - YouTube[^] (approx middle of the video - but it is all worth waching, even if the technical quality is mediocre).
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Awesome video
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available!
JaxCoder.com
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pipe mania
I had to delete it, not to play it day and night. A simple game, but a kind of a drug for me
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Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Defender, Doom (in order of complexity (and replayability).
Introduce him to Doom and the fan produced Hires version - and shut him up until the new year ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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thank you! I will check them out...
diligent hands rule....
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