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haughtonomous wrote: I'm afraid I'm a bit of a pedant when it comes to bad English
Not a problem. I am not a native speaker and I gladly accept corrections 
haughtonomous wrote: s notorious for this kind of ignorant mangling of our language and generously regularly provides much better examples!
I know what you mean. There are "BBC" like sites in other languages too. And it annoys me too when I see some sites kicking the spanish gramatic and / or lexicon in the balls.
M.D.V. 
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Take heart - your English is better than many of my native born compatriots!
There's a lovely line in the musical My Fair Lady, when the Hungarian Ambassador announces that "..her English is too good....which clearly indicates that she is foreign!"
Many a true word spoken in jest!
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Take heart - your English is better than many of my native born compatriots!
There's a lovely line in the musical My Fair Lady, when the Hungarian Ambassador announces that "..her English is too good....which clearly indicates that she is foreign!"
Many a true word spoken in jest!
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Thank you 
M.D.V.
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you guys have completely lost me. BJOD to 2BJOD to 2BJAY ????? please explain.
English is my first and best language and still don't get it.
BTW I spent some time working in Germany. Tried to learn language but hard. My German friends told me it's ok. They said German can be as complicated as English.
They taught me this German tongue twister.
Ich liebe dich nicht und du liebst mich nicht
"I don't love you and you don't love me." Even they had trouble with this one.
Languages are some of the most amazing things created by humans.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Bad Joke Of the Day
Two Bad Jokes Of the Day
Two Bad Jokes All Year
I think.....
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Yep, those jokes are bad all year long.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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haughtonomous wrote: I think.....
Not exactly...
Bad Joke of the Week --> BJOW --> Think about KSS Rule and the possible hidden insinuation involving two or three people where at least one of them is a man.
It was just an attempt to make a following joke about the bad jokes, but it just went wrong...
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Ok, but I was addressing the specific abbreviations jmaida was asking about. I also overlooked Bad Joke of the Hour, Bad Joke of the Season, Bad Joke Of My Entire Life and so on....π
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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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