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a mixed bag
I wonder if that "winter dance party" ever went ahead.
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Did I just hear 3news refer to the Australian Swimming child sex abuse case as "the pedo-speedo scandal"?
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That's cruel.
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Which I find rather ironic given how relaxed everyone around here was with Clark proffering an instant opinion on absolutely everything...
... as prime minister. As far as I recall, when she proffered a personal opinion she would generally identify it as such.
Meanwhile, what part of "the law works as it stands, we're not repealing it" is Key saying (repeatedly) in Martian?
I think this illustrates the point:
Lightly smacking a child will be in the course of parenting for some parents and I think that's acceptable. It is up to individual parents to decide how they're going to parent their children ... Some people will continue to lightly smack their child for correction, some will not. It is up to them to decide.
It contradicts the law. If the quote is not accurate - and is there anyone but you, Craig, who's suggesting that it isn't? - I expect we'll see a correction within hours.
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Key doesn't seem to realise that there's a difference between his position (on an issue) as the representative of the government and his personal opinion. He's forever answering the latter when being questioned on the former.
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Alliteration includes both.
Well, there you go. Looks like Russell's and my high school english teachers may have both been taught by the same ignorant oaf.
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Pendant alert: if I recall correctly, the headline in Jaquie Brown was itself an example of assonance, not alliteration.
Alliteration uses repeated consonant, assonance relies on repeated vowel sounds.
Quite so, but as a satirical take on a certain Ak. newspaper, an incorrect headline is surely more approprite than a correct one.
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Yeah, I can live with that.
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I have been wracking my brainz trying to remember where I picked that one up.
Here.
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80% of Aucklanders abhor alliteration
That was a particularly funny episode, I thought.