Posts by giovanni tiso
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We tried to ship the middle daughter, I swear, but the told us she had to be registered as a dangerous animal. Then she would have to share a crate with the tiger and it seemed unfair. For the tiger.
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of course "Credit Crunch" will probably see a new life in 2010 as a breakfast cereal ...
It's already the case, no? Witness the following true exchange recorded recently amongst Kellog's executives.
"Look at these sales figures! The results of our new cereal are extraordinary. How do you explain this?"
"I credit crunch."
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Well, Islander did her best ...
Yes, I'm kicking myself for not working out you could vote three times for the same word. I was attempting some silly single-transferable-vote-like trickery to bring up words that would have few chances of succeeding, besides rofflenui. And the solution was staring me in the face the whole time!
Enjoy the wine, Sacha, never case was more richly deserved.
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I am crunched that we didn't vote rofflenui on top. "Credit crunch"... meh. It's not even one word!
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If your wishing made it so...
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I honestly thought you had written "it's like Twitter, but less demeaning". That would have made for a lively debate.
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You know, it's really funny you caught Wellington on such a bad day, we had nothing but sun and warmth for weeks.
(They make you memorise this sentence - in seven languages - as a prerequisite to owning land in the city).
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This was a very pommie Rita, though. You know the old Woody Allen joke about the guy who acquires the rights to My Fair Lady and proceeds to remove the music and lyrics to make it back into Pygmalion? That's Educating Rita in a nutshell. Not a bad film either, if you're into Julie Walters and Michael Caine slurring his speech. (I'm into neither.)
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To wit, Giovanni: assonance is actually the close repetition of similar vowel sounds (which differs from basic rhyme.)
In Italian assonance applies to all sounds, not just vowels (when it's consonants sometimes we call it "assonanza consonantica", which is of course itself an assonance!).
That said, mine was merely a quotation from Educating Rita - Tom nabbed it right away.
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"That's", not "what's". Doom-dee-da.