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Eight, eight. I forget what eight is for.

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An assessment found eating an average of one meal a day of fish harvested from waters polluted by the company’s coal mines — an amount the Ktunaxa Nation considers to be sukiⱡ ʔiknaⱡa or eating good — could pose potential health risks due to selenium contamination.

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Tell me you haven't had a war on your soil in over a century without telling me you have no idea what horror actual war brings.

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20 stories on NYT about how Biden is old though.

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Pundits being fucking idiotic is frustrating, but what's killing me is it looks like the party is listening to them. Like, what the hell are you thinking??

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"Politics would be interesting again" gives away their game.

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I'm a nobody but I once had someone from India steal a dumb joke from me and the only reason I found out is because someone else in India found my original tweet and posted it to call them out. And The Friars Club STILL won't let me in.

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Right. We are - aren't we I am - amn't I It just makes sense.

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Why did NO ONE TELL ME THE SHOW EVIL WAS SO MUCH FUN?? (everybody told me, but I'm just starting season 2 and I get it now. I get it)

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Yes. But I will gladly go through the grammar with them to show them how wrong they are. 😀 Funny, but the only person to challenge me was someone with English as a 2nd language who told me it's an irregular verb. And they're right. BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE.

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That's very cool. I tried to use Duolingo to relearn it, and got pretty far, but it's not the best way to learn. There's no context for the words so you don't understand the grammar and syntax. It just becomes rote repetition. Ironically, the BBC has a decent program online.

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No, because those are the eyes of a man who kill you then calmly order a beer.

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Even though I'm in Canada now over 30 years I will never stop using amn't. It's just right. Aren't I is a ridiculous thing to say. 😀

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Listened to the hell out of this album at my friend's house as a young teen in Dublin. I was 100% a metal head back then but this album's coolness crossed all genres.

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The language has had a resurgence recently. I was HORRIBLE at Irish in school, but I'm glad it's coming back. There's even a popular soap opera in it now.

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There are so many great accents and dialects over there. I love the old Yorkshire one myself. Any language that still uses Thees and Thous is a winner for me.

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That must be a Celtic thing because Irish does that too.

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I'm a 70s/80s child so maybe they don't do it so much now. Although I'm sure it's still there.

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Might also be a little class dependent. But "I do be..." was something we said when I was growing up there. Irish has 2 tenses for "to be" - tá and bíonn. Bíonn is the habitual one (it sounds like Be On) so the thought is when Irish was banned we replaced bíonn with be in English.

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It's funny. I came from Ireland to this side and, yeah, a lot of things that are though of as "Black" here are things I grew up with. Weird things too, like sugar sandwiches.

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I heard about the experiment anecdotally, but it looks like it didn't do what I read.

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Habitual "be" is Hiberno-English but it came to that through Irish (colonialism stamped out the language but not how it was constructed). Although, it's usually "do be" instead of just "be" in Southern Ireland.
This gets into a bit and references the previous studies.
ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/in...

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I know. They did an experiment with kids about this. They showed them Elmo and Cookie Monster and Elmo's eating cookie. When asked "Who is eating cookies" everyone said Elmo. When asked "Who be eating cookies" only the Irish and Black kids said Cookie Monster.

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Ain't kind of ties in too. In Ireland we use amn't for "am not" because saying "Aren't I" is silly. Ain't is also a substitution for "am not" and, honestly, makes more send to be than using "are" for first person singular.

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They literally said "Lie there and be quiet or we'll have to hurt you, it will all be over soon" but the news is still old guy is old??

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The head of JPMorgan Chase? They really know how to excite the working class, don't they?

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Youse is another one. I grew up with that in Dublin and it's a part of US dialects where large Irish populations settled like NYC, Boston, and Chicago.

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And we're off with yet *another* 1962 installment of our tour through American horror and fear on film - this is installment 146, and it's...THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE!

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I was reminded recently that the old Volkswagen ad with Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" is 25 years old. That hit me hard. Or facts like Devo's Whip It is as old today as Bing Crosby's "Pennies from Heaven" (1936) was when Whip It came out.

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To add to this. Hiberno-English is one of the few versions that has the habitual "be" - to differentiate between transient and permanent states. The only other one, afaik, is AAVE. The thought is that Irish immigrants taught this to Black Americans as they interacted very often with each other.

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Not sure if this counts, but the reason folks in Ireland speak English a bit differently (not just accent, but syntax, etc.) is because colonialism destroyed our native language (almost). What you're hearing is English words but Irish language grammar and syntax.

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I was very happy to see him here. He was so effing good in that show. Like, the world was cheering for a child dying a gruesome death. That takes talent.

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"If the left allows it to be" is so chilling. "It'd be a real shame if we had to call our brownshirts."

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Your honor, with all due respect, now you're messing with a son of a bitch.

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But deciding to do the US election like every other nation now is calling it a bit late. There's no time for systems to adjust. The media will be lost and just scream Dems in Disarray until November.

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There are four months to go. I've been alive long enough to know never say never, but I just don't see how anyone could jump in now and win this. It would also just scream that the Dems have no bloody clue what they're doing - which may be true, but you don't advertise it.

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America: "Cookie" British Isles: "Biscuit" A: "COOKIE!" BI: "What's America's favoUrite 'cookie'?" A: "Oreo. And I see what U did there." BI: "And who makes it?" A: "Nabisco" BI: "Nabisco, right. Na...Bis..Co. National..." A: "No..." BI: "Biscuit Company" A: "DAMN YOU TO HELL!" BI: (sips tea)

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I've been saying I'd just be Batman without the mask. Get DARPA to be my Lucius Fox and go be a violent vigilante against corporate America.

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This is exactly the self-sculpture Louise Belcher would make for herself.

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Shake ya bass But watch yourself Shake ya bass Show me what you're working with.

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