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Slava
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Fun Language Gag Video

Postby Slava » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:11 pm

At last, a worthwhile video from the NYT Laugh Lines humor page:

http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/200 ... never-day/
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Postby Stargzer » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:43 am

Good one! I've forgotten which word it was, but I remember a nun from about 5th grade or so telling someone who mis-pronounced a word, "You have the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble." I've always remembered that phrase.
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Postby LukeJavan8 » Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:12 pm

The 11 February 2010 is very funny.
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