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"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Friday, July 07, 2006
THE PIRATES OF PENRITH It’s amazing how cultures perceive other cultures. This afternoon the hairdresser was telling me that Australian English sounds like pirate-speak to him. He offered the example of Australians using ‘’me’’ for ‘’my’’. That’s the most interesting take of the Australian accent I’ve ever heard. I never! Shiver ‘’me’’ timbers - I should have made that scurvy landlubber walk the plank! (Rather than crossed his palm with silver doubloons as I did).
11:30 pm
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