Posts by Jake Pollock
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Come to think of it, given the flatness of certain New Zealand vowel sounds, said All Black might have to rescind his textses if you didn't get them the first time.
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I'm not normally one to defent that nice Mr Key, but on the 'textses' thing, the newly minted All Black that TV3 interviewed the other night also said that he was receiving heaps of 'textses' from his mates. Its probably not actually uncommon in colloquial New Zealand English, even if we might look down on it a bit. A number of new usages have emerged around text messaging, including 'texted', and the root verb 'to text'', which I'm sure at least some of you use on a regular basis. So let us celebrate our PM being down with the kids and helping us punch above our weight on the global making up usages around technology stage, rather than getting too snooty about that one.
Said All Black didn't find any new uses for rescind, however, so laugh away there . . .
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In other news, Reality TV contestants that have committed suicide.
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Obvious troll is obvious.
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I guess strictly speaking it should be 'homicide'. More to the point, isn't derailing a discussion by harping on narrow legal definitions called 'trolling?'
And Brickley: Just because the New Zealand government decided not to define something so that they can maintain an arm of violence against the populace without implicating themselves in it doesn't mean that we can't possibly have a definition for the thing. In this case, the use of violence to inspire fear in a population to achieve political or other ideological ends seems perfectly useful, and decidedly applicable to this situation.
With you on Susan Boyle, though. What a terribly boring episode in the history of entertainment.
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I'm not going overseas, and there are much bigger factors IMO than Govt policy in THAT decision
Those of us who are working toward the academic life, on the other hand, might not have much of a choice.
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It puts most of the newspaper commentators to shame.
No mean feat, seeing as, as far as I can tell, they have no shame.
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SamF: Silence of the Lambs.
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Who's keen to see The Te Aro Macchiatos vs The Karori Pajeros?
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Two things, in addition to the green paint for cycle lanes.
1) When I saw that picture of Phil Spector, I thought it was Steve Braunias.
2) What does Deborah Hill-Cone think of the Lake Road cycle lanes?