political language (UK version)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 31 03:50:19 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Wussup? Â Is UK the preferred new dialect of the future?

A good question, Tom. I myself have wondered why it is that speakers
of a wide variety of non-AmE dialects of English play such a prominent
role as voice-overers and shills, the Geico "gecko," the Sham-wow
(sp?) hustler, and that garden gnome springing readily to mind.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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