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Post by tangent on Dec 24, 2010 18:39:46 GMT
And may whichever December spiritual traditions you follow be a happy one. =^-^=
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Post by stokerino on Dec 24, 2010 21:09:38 GMT
Ramadan was four months ago, but okay.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Dec 25, 2010 3:50:24 GMT
Christmas is a strange holiday. Very odd history.
My family has taken to having a big fancy dinner on Christmas. Kinda like the American Thanksgiving dinner tradition, only the centerpiece meat is prime rib instead of turkey. Much more interesting that way.
Of course our Thanksgiving tradition of making a giant fire sorta usurped the Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe it's more fun to ignore popular tradition and make your own?
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Post by NFFaerie on Dec 25, 2010 13:23:22 GMT
My family goes with this: In the morning we go open our stockings on our parents bed while our grandparents drive across town. Then we open the presents under the tree and we all have breakfast At night this year the parties at my cousins house (cuz since my moms parents have 3 children we switch around whos turn it is.) And we eat and open more gifts. Boxing day we have a party where more of the family comes to my grandparents house then its my sisters birthday and then we go out to a town around the bay to spend time with oour other grandparents
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Post by Emily on Dec 26, 2010 11:24:39 GMT
Oh you guys... I worked too hard slogging around in the snow and now I have the lurgey... I am SO ill, curled up on my parents sofa and coughing up a lung. At least there is Doctor Who to watch...
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Post by tangent on Dec 26, 2010 13:44:07 GMT
I swear, Britianese is such a delightful language to hear. =^-^=
*tucks Emily in and puts a hot cup o' tea by her side*
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Post by Ally on Dec 26, 2010 21:31:59 GMT
Maybe it's more fun to ignore popular tradition and make your own? Personal traditions > popular traditions Christmas was awesome. We all descended on my aunty, uncle and cousin's house, ate delicious delicious food, watched Doctor Who and Poirot (which led to a big ol' moral debate between my mum and my cousin on vengance v. lawfulness), and played a lot of WiiFit. I also got weed on by a guinea pig, but they're adorable, so I didn't mind.
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Post by Emily on Dec 27, 2010 11:13:03 GMT
I swear, Britianese is such a delightful language to hear. =^-^= It's ENGLISH, you cur. Although that sentence is particularly full of slang.
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Post by NFFaerie on Dec 27, 2010 14:18:35 GMT
ive never actually heard a English accent... ive only heard a Newfoundland one and an Irish one... i can do quite a fine Scottish one though.
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Post by tangent on Dec 27, 2010 15:38:47 GMT
I swear, Britianese is such a delightful language to hear. =^-^= It's ENGLISH, you cur. Although that sentence is particularly full of slang. Heeheehee! Mispelled it anyway, should have been Britainese. =^-^= And you must admit, that sounds like a much more delightful way to call it than "English" (or more specifically the "Queen's English" since I speak English and it doesn't sound like your English ^^).
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Post by Emily on Dec 27, 2010 17:59:01 GMT
You speak american. ¬_¬ What I speak is by noooooo means the Queen's English...
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Post by mal on Dec 28, 2010 21:52:54 GMT
isint the queen quater germainian? we speak englands own english in that case.
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Post by Ally on Dec 28, 2010 23:26:05 GMT
Yup, they're of German descent. Besides, no-one speaks English like the Queen except the Queen, her accent is bizarre.
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Post by stokerino on Dec 30, 2010 17:09:25 GMT
If by 'bizarre' you mean 'unchanged since the 1950s', then yes.
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Post by Ally on Dec 30, 2010 19:28:37 GMT
That is pretty bizarre, if you think about it - for a person's accent not to have changed in 60 years. Mine's changed in the last 10 years and the Queen's lived in/travelled to many more places than I have.
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Post by jonathan on Dec 31, 2010 0:45:08 GMT
I find the idea of trying to analyse one's own accent strange. Nobody thinks they have an accent!
Also, if yours changed in the last 10 years, it's probably because you were in adolescence for part of that (unless you're 30 and nobody told me). Many things about a person are likely to change during adolescence, and even early adulthood. 50 years ago, the queen was 34, well past any stage where you'd really expect that to happen easily.
Granted, my mother's accent became less Scottish over the last 24 years and she's in her 70s now, but that was from living in England permanently. The queen may have travelled to other places lots but I bet she didn't stay in any of them for that long.
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Post by stokerino on Dec 31, 2010 10:16:51 GMT
Plus, the Queen was undoubtedly taught enunciation, rather than just going with whatever like most people do. It's therefore more likely to stick.
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Post by Ally on Dec 31, 2010 11:23:02 GMT
Plus, the Queen was undoubtedly taught enunciation, rather than just going with whatever like most people do. It's therefore more likely to stick. Fair point. On accents in general, though, people are deluded if they don't think they have an accent. I probably focus on my voice more than a lot of people because I have a slight tendency to lisp/run my words together if I'm not concentrating/pronounce words like "duel" and "jewel" to sound exactly the same (which I realise are speech impediments, not accents), but I've definitely noticed changes over the past ten years, and I put at least some of it down to living in different places and being around different people. If the Queen's accent hasn't changed it suggests to me that she's spent most of her time around people who speak exactly the same way as she always did, which makes sense when you consider the rest of the Royals.
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Post by stokerino on Dec 31, 2010 11:33:28 GMT
I obviously don't think that I'm accent-less, but I have great difficulty equating my accent to someone else's for comparison.
Also, can NEVER get used to hearing a recording of my own voice. It's weirdness in the extreme. Who's with me? >_>
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Post by Emily on Dec 31, 2010 19:26:27 GMT
when i hear my voice played back, i'm always sure it's much higher than it sounds to me.
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