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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Even worse
Portrayals of non-English speakers always have them speaking with perfect grammar but outrageous accents.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:55, 2 replies)
Giving them accents
Sounds like they're really patronising them.

Eurotrash never did though, they'd dub a Danish guy with some Janet Street-Porter sound-a-like.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:58, closed)
You do tend to learn textbook grammar when learning another language
I've been speaking English every day for the past fifteen years, but other people still tell me I 'talk like a book'.
(, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 23:38, closed)

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