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Re: May I have some online resource to train my Scottish Accent listening?

by Anen <amagee@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dec 10, 2006 at 11:05 PM

Quoth littlelefty70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Anen wrote:
>> Quoth littlelefty70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Nice piccies. Were you standing in the water when you took that
cruise
>> >> ****p head on?
>> >
>> >Nope!  Sitting on  the dock of the bay.
>>
>> Watching the tide roll away?
>
>I never seem to have that kind of time.

How much time can it take? Twelve hours one way, twelve hours the
other?

>> >Oh, there's a song in there.  What was his name?
>>
>> Otis Elevator.
>
>Whell shore, that's one Otis.
>
>I was thinking like, Redding?

You're probably right.

>Was that the sap that was blown away by his significant other?

Was he? Hmmm...<google google> Nope, he died in a plane crash.

>> >> >I've been urging our staff assistant without success to move up to
a
>> >> >DSLR, but today she showed me a Kodak little box thingy that fits
into
>> >> >a docking station of sorts for printing purposes that she's got her
>> >> >heart set on.  I believe the $250 sales price is the deciding
factor.
>> >>
>> >> I was thinking about one of those Kodak box thingies until I found
out
>> >> that the Canon has 12X zoom with image stabilizer.
>> >
>> >Hmmmm, I'll tell her.
>>
>> It's a bit more expensive than the Kodak box. Around $400 seems to be
>> the going rate.
>
>Canadian or USDs?
>
>If US you're well on your way to SLR territory.

US, and I think I underestimated. But that includes the lens and
everything. Don't you have to buy lenses for the DSLR?

>> >> I like Flickr. It's the easiest photosharing site I've ever used. Or
>> >> even visited.
>> >
>> >I'll consider moving my junk, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
>> >
>> >Might prove fatal.
>>
>> I can't hold my breath. Too out of shape.
>
>A jpeg would be a fine thing.

No, no, it wouldn't.

>> >> Anne, not happy with the snoo girl
>> >
>> >Where? SoCal is in the grips of one of those dreaded Santa Ana
>> >conditions with wind-blown wild-fire in Ventura County.
>>
>> Yeah, I saw in the news. Nasty.
>
>Some people like um.  I hate um cuz they drive my allergies off the
>scale. Some say the Santa Ana is comparable to the Scirocco.
>
>The wind not the car.

There's a car called Santa Ana?

>Anyway, the wind was for a time gusting to like 60-80 MPH and some poor
>motorcyclist was blown off the Pine Valley Bridge.

Ooh, I bet that hurt.

>> >Well, I needed more practice nailing ****ngles anyway.
>>
>> Ooh, do you have a nail gun?
>
>No, I prefer to hold the roofing nail between my index and middle
>fingers and then pound them repeadedly with the hammer.  My fingers
>that is.

Well, I should hope so. No fun hitting nails.

>> >Michael, blown away boy.
>>
>> Isn't that another song?
>>
>> Anne, who just heard that her sister broke her leg
>
>No?  Slipped on the ice?

Yeah, on her driveway. 

Broken ankle actually, and she's now s****ting a bright red walking
cast. I hope she's still wearing it when I go home for xmas.

Anne
-- 
Eschew obfuscation.

Photos at http://flickr.com/photos/anen/
 




 4 Posts in Topic:
Re: May I have some online resource to train my Scottish Accent
littlelefty70@[EMAIL PROT  2006-12-07 20:47:41 
Re: May I have some online resource to train my Scottish Accent
Anen <amagee@[EMAIL PR  2006-12-10 23:05:27 
Re: May I have some online resource to train my Scottish Accent
nowhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2006-12-13 01:35:33 
Re: May I have some online resource to train my Scottish Accent
Anen <amagee@[EMAIL PR  2006-12-12 23:25:25 

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