Posts by Danielle
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I use 'wee' a lot myself. It confused Americans no end. Is it an Otago/Southland thing, or a general NZ thing?
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I still quote Debbie Allen on a regular basis. 'Well fame costs! And right here's where you start paying. In *sweat*!'
I think Leroy (the actor) died in Paris relatively recently, in straitened circumstances. RIP Leroy.
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*Shirley?
'Don't call me Shirley.'
(That joke - from Airplane - is another one which only works for Americans, doesn't it? Because we pronounce 'surely' and 'shirley' differently... at least, I thought we did. But apparently in a lot of cases we're all about the homophones, and my rarefied Shore upbringing as one of the valley girls of the southern hemisphere has deafened me to it. Gag me with a spoon!)
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I am 33 and have never pronounced 'fear' and 'square' or 'hear' and 'hair' the same... am I the last of a dying breed?
I cringe how English is mangled on these shaky isles
I don't think RP is coming back any time soon. Thank god.
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I think she admitted to unwitting plagiarism - blamed it on her research assistants or something? It's a bit fuzzy...
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that there is a blog called Longest Drink in Town. That giraffe cup is basically one of my favourite things about New Zealand (yes, I am a weirdo).
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I wonder whether we don't end up with creeping qualificationism, with people needing higher qualifications to do the same jobs with no more productivity.
Word. I am just about to embark upon a *second*, hoop-jumping Masters degree, so that the insanely hierarchical, status-obsessed library world will feel OK about promoting me from a ten-year reign as 'Senior Library Assistant' to the lofty heights of 'Assistant Librarian'. It rather gets on my wick, frankly, as I feel like that first Masters I did - you know, the one where I wrote a fucking *book* - could, quite possibly, have been enough to prove that I am fairly onto it and not a moron. Oh, and the decade of experience after that, working in libraries. Could that conceivably be relevant, too? No, no. I must get *another* student loan, and do *another* lot of readings and assignments, and write *another* 40,000 words that no one will ever read, so that the collection of letters after my name grows and grows, and then perhaps, if I'm very lucky, I can be an *assistant librarian*. You'd think it was brain surgery rather than the intricacies of digital publishing and the Dewey decimal system. Bah. A pox on qualificationism.
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I may have pointed this out before, but Bjork sounds amazingly like Little Jimmy Osmond, a lot of the time.
I would pay quite a lot of money to see Bjork covering 'Crazy Horses'.
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just quietly, wasn't this around the time that X really started getting onto the market?
Although... that makes it rather difficult to get to the, erm, baby-making end of a shag...
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'The women seem very confident': and this is a bad thing, somehow? Meh. I'll take the philistine hell-hole, thanks.
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were you doing a dirty phrases search on PA and all you could come up with was suck off the net?
I was just expressing surprise at your 'do as I say but not as I do' approach to this issue.