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	<title>The View from the Spaghetti Factory &#187; Language</title>
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		<title>Lolling all over the world</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/01/lolling-all-over-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Swedish radio&#8217;s Spr&#229;ket I&#8217;m glad to hear that there&#8217;s now a Swedish verb &#8220;lolla&#8221; &#8211; to LOL. Swedish language purists are probably tearing their hair out, but it made me grin. Not only have they adopted an abbreviation for &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/01/lolling-all-over-the-world">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comme une langue Étrangère</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2006/05/langue-etrangere</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 22:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past three months, I&#8217;ve been spending a short time each day learning French. Why? Well, first you have to understand why not. I don&#8217;t completely lack a background in French&#8230; like just about every British schoolkid, I learned &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2006/05/langue-etrangere">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alf Clausen and the Simpsons</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2006/05/clausen-simpsons</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 10:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working through the vast backlog of &#8220;ooh, that looks interesting&#8221; podcasts I&#8217;ve downloaded recently, I found a great little feature on Alf Clausen, composer of all the background and incidental music on &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;&#8230; basically, everything except for Danny Elfman&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2006/05/clausen-simpsons">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ford&#8217;s Passivator</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/03/paul-fords-passivator</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ouch. I like to think that I have a competent grasp of my native language, even though I don&#8217;t claim to be a virtuoso performer. I&#8217;m not a writer, as such. Well, I&#8217;m a writer in that part of my &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/03/paul-fords-passivator">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Soon, you&#8217;ll all be using this word</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/03/fuwking</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog. Blogging. Blogger. See Jack blog. For a hobby/fad/lifestyle choice which is (or isn&#8217;t, depending on who you believe) taking the materialistic portion of the world by storm, it&#8217;s a pretty stupid name. Childishly lopping off an unwanted syllable isn&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/03/fuwking">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Subtitling vs Dubbing</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/02/subtitling-vs-dubbing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I mentioned (or rather hinted at) my preference for subtitling foreign-language films, rather than dubbing them. Maybe it&#8217;s because my interests lie more with sound than vision, I dunno, but sound is an important aspect of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/02/subtitling-vs-dubbing">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The right to offend</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/01/right-to-offend</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But seriously&#8230; the Kilroy thing annoyed me in one particular way. It&#8217;s not the first time he&#8217;s made seriously prejudiced comments in the press, but so what? A failed MP, low-grade journalist and irrelevant daytime TV presenter? No biggie. The &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2004/01/right-to-offend">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The euphemised language of war</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/03/war-unspeak</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/03/war-unspeak#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lubin Odana writes of the effect of war on language. We&#8217;ve already had the eye-popping stupidity of Freedom Fries, but look out for lots of euphemistical and tactical mangling of the English language during the coming days/months/years (delete as fatalistically &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/03/war-unspeak">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom fries</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/03/freedom-fries</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Michael Pierry in the alt.music.mike-keneally newsgroup comes the story of freedom fries. If there are any French people reading this blog, I suggest you go out and burn down your local McDonalds.]]></description>
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		<title>The voice on the Tannoy tells me to Hoover up the Biros</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/02/google-goes-generic</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/02/google-goes-generic#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me naive, but I like it when people I admire and respect keep on doing more things that make me admire and respect them. In most cases, I&#8217;ve been lucky. Even when my favourite musicians, authors, actors or even &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2003/02/google-goes-generic">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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