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Old Dec 12, 2017, 2:29 am
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Originally Posted by squawk
Putting aside the details of the incident, I do enjoy the more interesting use of language in the Kenyan press, which is something the UK media seems to lack these days. “A night of merry… caused drama”, for instance …
Ah, the wonders of dialect. My companion is always complaining about Indian IT using the word "updation", which is a perfectly comprehensible noun derived from an obvious root, even if it is not standard English usage; but simultaneously oblivious to the time oddity in the South African dialect usage of the phrase "just now".
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