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Montreal Metro Passengers Lost With No Translation | SiteBits view story
A local daily reveals a nonsensical policy of unilingual (French) announcements on the metro, hardly in sync with Montreal's professed strong desire to attract foreign tourists and in stark contrast with Paris' trilingual announcement practice.
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Why McCain Can't Stop Saying "my friends." view story
"My friends," John McCain recently informed a crowd, "we spent $3 million of your money to study the DNA of bears in Montana."
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"That One": McCain's Use of Dehumanization as Hate-Speech view story
When McCain uses dehumanizing phrases like "that one" to refer to Barack Obama, he is implementing long-standing military techniques for dehumanizing one's opponent during wartime. But this is NOT a war, and McCain's behavior in this context is beyond irr
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Olympians Being Re-Tested for New Blood Booster | iNPLACENEWS view story
The International Olympic Committee will retest doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug and other banned substances.
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Dumber Than a Bag of Hammers view story
Think of this as some of the "left overs" to another article dealing with interesting phrases in the South (See Eating Corn on the Cob Through a Picket Fence). I have lived my entire life south of the Mason...
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Jasmine Loves this one...... Must see. view story
Hum = We Bolen = Talk Mohabbat = Love Zaban = Language OR We Speak the Language of Love. Message from the People of Pakistan to everyone in the world.
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