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09-05-2011, 08:05 PM
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Doctor Wtf
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 Thank you, Big V, I'm glad someone noticed my deliberate error.  Just put there for illustration purposes, of course.Griff: That would be pretty jarring, wouldn't it. I guess the bulls Vs Heat would be more fair! Glatt: you Yankee cultural imperialist dogs (no, wait, is it pigs?) have flooded the planet with your commercialist culture to saturation point - and the rest of us race to slurp it up like a hi-powered sewage pump draining a septic tank at a rock festival.  Just off the top of my head: Lebron James just moved from (I think) Chicago to Miami, ticking off quite a few fans along the way, but wasn't able to clinch the championship. Was that right? Do I win a big mac? ETA: Should that be "Yankee cultural imperialist dogs has flooded ..."?
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09-06-2011, 07:50 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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09-05-2011, 09:27 PM
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Doctor Wtf
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Our study guide offers the following:
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09-06-2011, 06:11 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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It also depends whether you are referring to them as an object (The English football team) or using the team name 'England'.
So, you'd say 'The English football team is due to arrive at the airport in half an hour', but 'England are due to arrive at the airport in half an hour'.
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09-07-2011, 06:35 AM
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Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
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i wish the brits would learn to speak english in their school system. it would help their children learn to function in the world society. perhaps we could arrange a language program where rural mississippians would serve as tutors.
'y'all come back again; you here?"
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09-10-2011, 10:08 AM
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Radical Centrist
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It turns out the American accent is closer to what English speakers spoke in the 1700s.
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09-10-2011, 04:40 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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It's closer to some regions in the 1700s. It's significantly further away from what would have been spoken in most of the North
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09-10-2011, 10:03 PM
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Radical Centrist
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How long until we merge again?
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09-10-2011, 10:42 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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I think what's supposed to happen is we have sex with all of them, and then their species dies out?
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