lynne2024.bsky.social
Lancashire-raised, Lincolnshire-domiciled; retired OU-er; mother & grandmother; fond of semicolons.
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'No pets, just a computer'
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As Jillian suggests, the findings may simply indicate distinguishing between familiar/other. The experiment needs repeating with children from, say, Bradford, to see if the associations are reversed. Perhaps they will link northern accents with cleverness & niceness.
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I wish you were right, but I fear we're in for 4 years of Jenkyns giving us the finger.
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Everyone's except Reform, it seems. Tories have all but conceded already.
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Urban explorers & he's the one with the map?
(Really quite mystifying)
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But how will you know whether the cat has dealt with it, or whether it's still lurking somewhere?
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If you have a Mayor election on May 1st, we have advice for those too
StopReformUK.vote
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Are you tempted to send them a claim for your rail fare?
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How frustrating. I hope you can get some sense (& maybe even an apology) out of them tomorrow.
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Love to see this one come round each year😊
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That child looks decidedly feverish.
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I don't know whether it would be helpful, as opinions are so entrenched on both sides of the debate. But it would certainly be interesting - your language blogposts always are.
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' ChatGPT can complete every technical writing skill in seconds and for free.' - how can a skill be completed? I wonder if he meant 'task' rather than 'skill'?
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Of course! Never had one as a child, but I do now I'm 'getting on a bit' 😆
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It could just be a factual response, acknowledging (or at least suspecting) that factory jobs are poorly paid relative to whatever the respondents are currently doing.
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The article is from 2018. I seem to remember it being ridiculed quite comprehensively at the time 😆
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Why could I *smell* that as soon as I scrolled to it?!
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Maybe as soon as you've activated the new PIN, you could go online & change it to the one you know & love?
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Is that even legal?
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They must have updated it.
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Up to 40, it says, so probably not enough. But the vote isn't till May, so there's time to put pressure on.
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Trying to work out if that's a typo or a pun😆
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Even down to the little creases in the strap!
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Lovely periwinkle 😍
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Perhaps because UK isn't a word, whereas US could be an emphatic plural of ME, so the full stops serve to disambiguate?
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*Merganser