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message from dubdub's kitchen:
"Help! Someone get me down from here! Please? I can't reach the button from up here! Is anyone there? Helllll~ooooooo?!"
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Ha! Mav', thanks for pointing out a design flaw. Easy to correct: Each kitchen cavinet would have emergency buttons on the inside walls of the cavinet shelves.
Next big problem: Designing the seals so that water couldn't seep down into the cavinets when scrubbing the floor. NASA would certainly be up to the design task.
Now what to do with the cat?
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That's the one Jackie.
Turkey dinner last night,
turkey soup starts tonight on the woodstove. Cast on cast - It will be quite an aromatic romance.
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On February 27 and 28 and March 3, 4 and 6, the Food Network will present the "Slam Dunk Skillet Showdown" -- a televised competition from San Antonio, Texas, in which basketball coaches and local chefs compete in doing things -- some athletic, some culinary. One suspects that they have a firm idea of what a skillet is .. right, wrong or indifferent.
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Dat player's highly skillet, yeah?
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home skillet n 1. a very good friend. 2. one's girlfriend or boyfriend.
~The Online Slang Dictionary
Mav, thanks, home skillet.
Stephen
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Maybe we should get used to the three classes of language being good, bad and... different! :)
[/hangin' wid da homies]
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formerly known as etaoin...
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the three classes of language being good, bad and... different!
This is an excellent proposal. Good language is good because it works. Bad language is bad because it doesn't. People who are good at good language tend to lump different language in with the bad, because it doesn't work for them. If it works for others (e.g. the homies in the hood) then it is not so much bad as just different.
How do you suppose the French think of the patois spoken in the Channel Islands?
How do you suppose speakers of Icelandic and Norwegian think of that language spoken in the Faroe Islands?
What does a Continental Portuguese speaker think when she hears someone from Rio Grande do Sul speaking the Gaúchan dialect of Brazillian Portuguese (in a way that is more understandable to some Argentinians)?
I am not hanging up my prescriptivist spurs hereby, but am admitting that, in addition to good English and bad English, there is also different English.
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In Québec, there are two different categories of language that are categorized as non-standard French.
A patois is a regional dialect. I'd say we classify it as a different language.
Joual is a butchering of the language and is considered bad language. An example is when somebody says, ouin (sounds like wain) instead of oui (oooy) (this means YES in French). Tsé (approx pronunciation: tsay - in one syllable) instead of Tu sais (approx pronunciation: too say) (this means "you know")
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