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I think the AI transcriber is mainly used to American accents because I get a lot more errors with foreign accents. Today a British speaker said "sort it out," and the AI interpreted that as "saucy tout."
 
Fluent non-native English speakers are often identifiable by their use of a mixture of both English and American idiom - a native speaker would use one or the other, but not both.

I was reminded of this when listening to ABBA's hit The Day Before You Came, in which appears the (apparently) very American phrase "I must have made my desk about a quarter after nine".

An Englishman would say "... made it to my desk", or (more in keeping with the scansion) "... reached my desk".

But then it occurred to me that ABBA are Swedish. Perhaps he got a desk from Ikea, and actually made it each morning from a flatpack...
 
New game to play!
Log on to webcam girls' sites. Some point in the performance, say, "Hey! Don't i know you from work?" Reaction could be much more entertaining than the sex stuff...
 
The fly on Pence's head has a contract to appear on the next season of Dancing With The Stars.
 
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Just received a pic of my granddaughter standing. One year old. Holding furniture, but standing.
Now mommy's and daddy's reflexes start to shift to panic mode.
 
I don't think we're going back to the office until April. The company has bought cameras, mics for everyone, office chairs are available, all the monitors you can eat,... set for the long haul.

I've received my camera. Set it up on a flexible tripod, rather than on my monitor for a little more flexibility.
First day i attended the morning meeting with the camera aimed at my dragon puppet.
Second day, my skunk puppet.
Still to come, puppets of a harp seal, a tree frog, wabbit, pooh, tigger...
Anything but my face.
My team voted me most likely to get a company instruction written for attending video meetings....
 
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This is actually a teaching point in my lesson. I teach the history of Sub Launched Ballistic Missiles.
After WWII, we had The Bomb.
We had The Bomb on planes (original issue), and German scientists putting The Bomb on top of missiles (more like the Costco packaging). Someone suggested yhat we could maybe put The Bomb on missiles on ships. Then range wouldn't be as much of a limiting factor, we could ssil the missile into the target's range!
To objections that they would 'see us coming,' that's the best part. We put them on subs. Tricksy sneaking underwater launch silos!

The discussion lasted for years. Was it possible, was it feasible, was it desirable?

October, 1955, the Russians launched a missile from a submarine. In November, 1955, Admial Raborn had a huge budget, an office that reported directly to the CNO, and a ten year deadline to come up with a program.

Cuz Soviets.
 
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This is actually a teaching point in my lesson. I teach the history of Sub Launched Ballistic Missiles.
After WWII, we had The Bomb.
We had The Bomb on planes (original issue), and German scientists putting The Bomb on top of missiles (more like the Costco packaging). Someone suggested yhat we could maybe put The Bomb on missiles on ships. Then range wouldn't be as much of a limiting factor, we could ssil the missile into the target's range!
To objections that they would 'see us coming,' that's the best part. We put them on subs. Tricksy sneaking underwater launch silos!

The discussion lasted for years. Was it possible, was it feasible, was it desirable?

October, 1955, the Russians launched a missile from a submarine. In November, 1955, Admial Raborn had a huge budget, an office that reported directly to the CNO, and a ten year deadline to come up with a program.

Cuz Soviets.
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There's nothing like an arms race to stimulate innovation in science, technology, and engineering.

Both World Wars were hugely influential in driving new technologies. But the Cold War was arguably even more so - partly because it had the two World Wars as a foundation, but also because unlike those earlier wars, the two sides largely refrained from dropping bombs and shells onto each other's research facilities.
 
Martha Stewart published a recipe for "Pistachio and Cardamom Cake." Wife read us the ingredients. "Pistachios, preferably from Sicily..."

Youngest child lost it. We've gone thru a couple pistachio phases. Not a bad snack. Learning, however, that there are, or could be, SICILIAN PISTACHIO SNOBS has rendered him incandescent. He hasn't shut up about it for half an hour.
 
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My wife and I will sometimes grab dinner from Chipotle, we always get the rice bowls, but ALWAYS there are young men in line ahead of us who insist on having the staff create the worlds largest burrito, they sweet talk the staff (or just cajole them) into extras, then watch as the staff wrestles the contents into the already giant tortillas. How these young men manage to unwrap their meals is a source of wonder . . .
 
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