Hey granny can you read with your Walmart reading specs ????!!
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> Iceman wrote:
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>> On Jan 13, 5:08 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
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>>>Iceman wrote:
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>>>>On Jan 11, 10:48 am, "James Silverton"
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>I have recently listened quite a bit to the BBC News on BBC
>>>>>America and it seems to me that many British newsreaders
>>>>>pronounce the final vowel as a long e ("ee"), not unaccented as
>>>>>in "the", which would be my preference. I wonder if British
>>>>>English users have any opinions?
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>>>>It's a shithole in any dialect.
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>>>Depends upon which part you visit! (As with any other large
>>>city, anywhere on Earth.)
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>> To be fair, I didn't have a car when I visited and tried to use the
>> (pathetic) public transport system. And my hotel in "Macarthur Park"
>> was not really in downtown LA like it claimed to be.
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> That explains your comment admirably! At one time (in the 1920's or
> thereabouts) that was one of the nicest areas of the city, but times
> change. When I moved to L.A. in the early 1950's, it wasn't too bad -
> most of the pretentious mansions had been converted into boarding houses
> for single young adults with jobs downtown. ....A transient population,
> but more or less "respectable", at that time. However, that was before the
> drug culture got a foothold. MacArthur Park, itself, used to be a lovely
> public park where people took their children on weekends. Now even the
> police go there in pairs (or with K9 "partners"), and prefer not to be on
> foot! Area residents now are mostly immigrants employed for subsistence
> wages, with a fair share of "homeless" living on the streets and in the
> park.
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>> But as a New
>> Yorker I felt that the mass transit sucked and you can't walk
>> anywhere. I suspect I only really got to see such a tiny fraction of
>> the city - downtown, Koreatown and Hollywood (which many long-time LA
>> residents would never go to anyway) that I can't really judge it.
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> Well, Hollywood has been undergoing a minor renaissance in recent years -
> for a while it was an area to avoid, especially at night. I have to agree
> about the public transportation (although it was a little better in the
> 1950's - before I could afford an automobile). They have spent untold
> millions to develop a "rapid transit" system than no one but the indigent
> seem to use. I'm not sure it's even SAFE - at least not for women
> traveling it alone at night. (But then, parts of the New York subway is
> getting a similar reputation.)
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