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Really interesting - this is of special interest to me as I'm scandinavian - and I keep coming across words (often in Couplands novels) which I think are examples of a kind of casual vocabulary - that I've never heard before in english but which sound kind of scandinavian to me.
The...
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Is 'tune' ever pronunced tyūn in american english?
the dictionary says - but when/where/by whom is the second form used? is it ever heard?
Dictionary:
tune
(tūn, tyūn)
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Do the verbs "schlump" and "slump" have anything to do with each other? Any relation there? The origin in Norweigan I'm not familiar with as it would normally signify something “done by random” (randomize) .. I originally saw schlump in a Douglas Coupland novel: “I...
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Hi Jim, you're definately NOT naive, on the contrary, we're simply caught in the middle of the different software vendors fighting to promote their format .. standards are merely decided by a survival of the "fattest" process ..
be interested to hear your opinion on the...
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Design Patterns are about 'names'. Primarily it is a way to give or associate **names** with common class designs (patterns) for solving typical coding tasks. They are an important step to avoid that people sit around in different corners and "invent" similar stuff which they...
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for me the phonetic transcription of my countrymen's speech - which indeed is very charactheristic and spot on .. really emphasises what I need to work on.
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here we go
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_atlas.php
it was actually as I had lost the link to the "international dialects of English archive" that I went looking and found this ..
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I must have missed the link in the rush - strange - I thought I just dropped it in there .. anyhow it's not the first hit on google .. I'll give you the link later today
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Excuse me in case this has been posted here previously ... this is just a beautiful resource for this forum and is worth being repeated.
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Here's a native ae speaker - who does a great presentation - however I'd like to know what kind of accent this guy's most probably using as I noticed his accent doesn't sound as thick as usually.
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=710
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