...chicken adobo and boondocks....Originally Posted by Jimmy Mulga
...majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd...
I love etymology, it would never have occurred to me that "the boonies" comes from Tagalog.
Jessica Hagedorn's a pretty good writer. and unlike Yeats and Joyce, she's still alive.
Imodium can't stop me.
Well It wasn't my decision to make, but no I'm quite content not being British, nasty sort they are!
It was all sweet before them Anglo-Saxons arrived.
---Update---
Dead writers are better, we don't have to listen to them talk about their own work.
writers talking about their work tends to be interesting, and tend to frame it in terms of craft not pretentious bullshit. it's comp lit professors that we're better off without, not writers.
I don't agree, any artist talking about his or her work is as dull as dishwater.
I find both pretty dull--in fact, talking about literature in general is pretty fucking boring. But maybe that's because I endured too much of it.
so you think comp lit professors are more interesting? maybe, but only if you've never written anything more complicated than an email.
yeah,its true,but they will NEVER use them..!! they will just ride the paranoia train, and the 'Native Speaker' boat all the way to the end...
if you ask me, the various "native speaker" accents adds some interesting spice to learning English n good fun,with occasional confusion for most 'learners' even 'native speakers'
imagine a fun scenario with an auzzie, a brit, a scottsman,n a southern yank in the pub tryin' to pick up any one of the many babes with very LIMITED English...
I heard that Irish teachers will be allowed to continue teaching as long as they wear a green suit and hat to school each day and constantly talk about their "lucky charms".
"There's a beverage here man!"
What's the difference between a Brit and a Scot?
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Britt's a girl's name and Scott's a boy's name.
An Irishman was in my Thai class earlier this year, and I could hardly understand a word of what he was saying when he was supposedly speaking English. I don't know what area of Ireland he hailed from, but he certainly didn't sound like a charming leprechaun or even a tough mobster, with a soft lilt and a bit o' a trill. Every time he spoke "English", he sounded as if he were trying to swallow his tongue and speak Swahili at the same time.
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