The Off Topic Topic

[Maladict]

Here is something of interest regarding mimicking the accents - it has to do with empathy and bonding with those around you.

Scientists from the University of California, Riverside, found the subconscious copying of an accent comes from an inbuilt urge of the brain to "empathise and affiliate"

"This unintentional imitation could serve as social glue, helping us to affiliate and empathise with each other."

So, I guess we have found why this is outside your experience, Garbon and the Grumbles.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/7931299/Humans-subconsciously-mimic-other-accents-psychologists-claim.html

I usually notice when my gf is speaking to friends or family back home, her accent tends to become more pronounced.
That doesn't happen with new (American) friends over here.

[Maladict]

My dad will be coming home today, minus one leg.  He's going to use a wheel chair for a while.

Hope he recovers well, Raz   

[Tamas]

It is the 100th anniversary of the breakthrough at Caporetto.

Thanks to this I have discovered an old (made in 60s I think) documentary, interviews with Hungarian veterans who participated in the battle, and they also brought them to meet Italian veterans.

It is fascinating for the accounts of the battle, but also the opening scene made me think:

You can see this old farmer/peasant guy, struggling a bit to get his horse and cart past the farm's gate, then you can see his living room when interviewed - maybe not poverty poverty, but certainly very humble conditions. He proceeds to explain he was a horse artillery officer, and he shows photos... he was among the help sent to the Dardanelles, then proceeded to Palestine, and then sent back to Romania for the offensive in '16, then on to Caporetto. Also during the war he spent time in Russia, living with a Russian family, having an affair with a lady whose husband was killed.
A childhood friend and fellow WW1 soldier on one of the photos, recently died at the time of filming, in England... he got there after sentenced to 17 years in prison in one of the early 50s mock trials.

It is incredible to think that such fates and lives were behind a many of the old generation I saw growing up.

[Grey Fox]

I'm proof of CCs argument. I spent a week in London in 2004(Remember I met Languish?!) by day 5 even my francophone accent had changed.

[Tamas]

I'm proof of CCs argument. I spent a week in London in 2004(Remember I met Languish?!) by day 5 even my francophone accent had changed.

Because you were a kid.

I am deep into my 30s and after 4 years of England my accent is basically unchanged.

A 16 years old Hungarian son of a friend of mine spent a year in school in England. He now speaks like the natives.

[Josquius]

It begins.
The reason why none of us can be politicians.
Long known this day would one day come but this is the first I've seen it. 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-urged-to-suspend-mp-over-homophobic-and-sexist-slurs-a3666351.html

[Tamas]

It begins.
The reason why none of us can be politicians.
Long known this day would one day come but this is the first I've seen it. 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-urged-to-suspend-mp-over-homophobic-and-sexist-slurs-a3666351.html

Yeah. First when I heard it I was "what a moron to talk like that while in a comity like that". Then today I realised he wrote that 15 years ago. Wow.

[Maladict]

It is the 100th anniversary of the breakthrough at Caporetto.

Thanks to this I have discovered an old (made in 60s I think) documentary, interviews with Hungarian veterans who participated in the battle, and they also brought them to meet Italian veterans.

It is fascinating for the accounts of the battle, but also the opening scene made me think:

You can see this old farmer/peasant guy, struggling a bit to get his horse and cart past the farm's gate, then you can see his living room when interviewed - maybe not poverty poverty, but certainly very humble conditions. He proceeds to explain he was a horse artillery officer, and he shows photos... he was among the help sent to the Dardanelles, then proceeded to Palestine, and then sent back to Romania for the offensive in '16, then on to Caporetto. Also during the war he spent time in Russia, living with a Russian family, having an affair with a lady whose husband was killed.
A childhood friend and fellow WW1 soldier on one of the photos, recently died at the time of filming, in England... he got there after sentenced to 17 years in prison in one of the early 50s mock trials.

It is incredible to think that such fates and lives were behind a many of the old generation I saw growing up.

It's also hard to imagine how unknown the outside world was to the local communities.
I remember reading (in the White War, probably) how people evacuated from the Isonzo front to central Italy had never seen pasta before.

[Maladict]

It begins.
The reason why none of us can be politicians.
Long known this day would one day come but this is the first I've seen it. 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-urged-to-suspend-mp-over-homophobic-and-sexist-slurs-a3666351.html

Good to known those bridges have been burnt, and we can't become president or PM in a moment of weakness.

[Razgovory]

My dad will be coming home today, minus one leg.  He's going to use a wheel chair for a while.

Hope he recovers well, Raz   

He's home.  He won't get the prosthetic leg for a little while so he's currently limited in what he can do.  Still, he's doing better than when he was went in the hospital three months ago.  My aunt (who was a nurse), didn't think he would last a week.

[derspiess]

Glad he's improved.  Is he in good spirits?

[Valmy]

I admire Raz's dad and his tenacious determination to remain alive.

[11B4V]

PINEAPPLE DOES NOT BELONG ON PIZZA

[CountDeMoney]

PINEAPPLE DOES NOT BELONG ON PIZZA

[Ed Anger]

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