Posts by giovanni tiso
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They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.
They're still laughing at Fulton, to be fair.
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Oh, I get it, he's obese. It's funny 'cos it's true!
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My son has just come back from the Special Olympics national games in Palmerston North with several medals for swimming.
YAY!
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Build a bridge and get over it!!
I believe the correct expression is "build a motorway overpass" and get over it.
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Sir, both my former teachers and my Google dictionary search say you are mistaken.
Mostly ...
They're slippery concepts, but I believe what I put up above is the standard explanation to English students. Sometimes you'll hear that alliteration is the repetition of the initial sound of words, regardless of whether it's consonants of vowels. In either case the opposite of assonance is consonance.
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(And as we all know the correct technical definition of assonance is "getting the rhyme wrong").
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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.
Nope, sorry. You're thinking of consonance vs. assonance. Alliteration includes both.
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The larger question is why any of this is on television in the first place. Why are we expected to spend breakfast looking at presenters? Why not scientists or educators? Or a soap opera?
Precisamundo. The problem is not Paul Henry, loathsome as he is.
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You don't have to introduce agricultural subsidies to subsidise good food. Subsidies can go to the consumer rather than the producer.
How are you going to ensure that this money gets spent on fresh foods, instead of cheaper unhealthy alternatives? Do you think you're going to make everybody upper middle class by enacting tax cuts?
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and Giovanni?
All ("The South Island" etc. & the cheese - jeez! It took a while to herd that into the box!) on the way on Monday-I am baking special bread in my mind as we speak.