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• Girl 1: Todays class was so boring
• Girl 2: That’s because we didn’t understand anything
• 1: I liked our old teacher better
• 2: She was even friendlier right
• Girl 3: Yeah. Plus her classes were interesting
• 2: Did you bring the water bottle?
• 1: That’s because I didn’t eat anything for breakfast
• 3: That’s not my problem. I need water
• 1: Let’s go eat with me?
• 2: You will feed us?
• 1: Sana promised us food.
• 2: Oh yeah let’s go eat from her.
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• Me: Okay will see you tomorrow then.
• Friend: Hahaha. Okay.
• Me: But am nervous.
• Friend: Why?
• Me: Because there will be lots of new students.
• Friend: It’s okay. There’s a married guy in our combined classes too.
He used to be a teacher too. And yeah I was nervous too.
• Me: Same like me right
• Friend: Mhmm
• Me: I think I have social anxiety
• Friend: Ugh. Its okay, you will get used to them
• Me: Lets see right. Okay I’m off. Bye
• Friend: Bye
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Immediate,
Planned, revised
spontaneous
Solitary, monologue
Interactive, dialogue
Permanent record
Ephemeral, no record
Public, wide audience,
Private, pne to one,
strangers
known audience
Message-oriented
Socially-oriented
Context-dependent
Context-dependent
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formality using the scale.
Comment of each aspect of the scale.
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what have you got here? Is that going to get us in legal
trouble? You might need to take that out, but the rest of it...
go for your life! " # You did a segment not long ago about
Turtle Divorce... that was amusing! # See, that's the thing;
they let me do whatever topic I want. I just have to come up
with a way to pitch it and make it relevant! I had to say, "
Turtle Divorce really closely parallels human divorce... " and
they kind of look at me like, " Really? I'd like to see you do
that! " They're very good employers, I have to say. # And Dave,
Charlie and Carrie are all incredibly generous and fun to work
with. They're just interested in the show being good; no-one
cares about who's the best one. So long as everyone looks
good, then the show looks good. It's a good attitude. # You're
on tour at the moment, aren't you
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Register Interview
Title Kitty Flanagan – Stand Up Comedian : Coffs Coast Focus
Source http://focusmag.com.au/coffs/interviews/kitty-flanagan
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good reasons. It's their role as a secular priesthood to really believe
the nonsense that they put forth. Other people can repeat it, but it's
not that crucial that they really believe it. But for the intellectual elite
themselves, it's crucial that they believe it because, after all, they are
the guardians of the faith. Except for a very rare person who's an
outright liar, it's hard to be a convincing exponent of the faith unless
you've internalized it and come to believe it. I find that intellectuals
just look at me with blank stares of incomprehension when I talk about
the American invasion of South Vietnam. On the other hand, when I
speak to general audiences, they don't seem to have much difficulty in
perceiving the essential points, once the facts are made accessible.
And that's perfectly reasonable -- that's what should be expected in a
society set up as ours is. # When I talk about, say, Cartesian common
sense, what I mean is that it does not require very far-reaching
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Register Other
Title What the World is Really Like: Who Knows It -- and Why, by
Noam
Source http://www.chomsky.info/books/reader02.htm
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what have you got here? Is that going to get us in legal
trouble? You might need to take that out, but the rest of it...
go for your life! " # You did a segment not long ago about
Turtle Divorce... that was amusing! # See, that's the thing;
they let me do whatever topic I want. I just have to come up
with a way to pitch it and make it relevant! I had to say, "
Turtle Divorce really closely parallels human divorce... " and
they kind of look at me like, " Really? I'd like to see you do
that! " They're very good employers, I have to say. # And Dave,
Charlie and Carrie are all incredibly generous and fun to work
with. They're just interested in the show being good; no-one
cares about who's the best one. So long as everyone looks
good, then the show looks good. It's a good attitude. # You're
on tour at the moment, aren't you
Text 6
Register Interview
Title Kitty Flanagan – Stand Up Comedian : Coffs Coast Focus
Source http://focusmag.com.au/coffs/interviews/kitty-flanagan
Text 7
this despite a lush outfield had significance, for the main stadium has
an even more verdant periphery. For England in this series, reverse
swing is seen to be every bit as potent a weapon as spin. # What is
certain is that however the attack is balanced, the imperative to hold
catches is greater than ever. By the admission of their fielding coach
Richard Halsall, England have not been at the top of their game in this
regard for a while now, and aside from the effect it can have on the
outcome of matches, it affects the morale of bowlers, especially in
heat such as they will encounter in Ahmedabad. Changes to the
cordon of close catchers has not helped. # So long had Andrew Strauss
been standing at first slip that he finished his career having taken more
catches than any other England fielder, wicketkeepers aside. And so
familiar a figure has he become that Prior now finds it odd in throwing
the ball to someone different. That person will now be Cook, a
competent if not outstanding catcher.
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Register Sports Report
Title Stuart Broad certain to play for England in opening Test against
Source http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/12/england-india-
stuart-broad-steven-finn
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Yes, some suspension of disbelief was necessary, but then, that's sort
of a requirement when reading faery tales, isn't it? I don't read these
kind of books because they are real. I read them because they are
strange and wonderful and impossible. # Technically, Treachery is a YA
novel, but it didn't read like one. Set in a breathtaking world that is
every bit as treacherous as the title implies, it is, at its heart, a dark
tale, where everyone has an agenda and danger lurks around every
corner. It's not at all like Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. In
Treachery, Oberon and Titania are deadly, devious characters. Cross
them, and you'll regret it. Even Puck is different - older, more serious,
and not looking at all like a rakish boy. # I liked Jenny a lot, but it was
Jack who really drove the novel for me. Talk about a guy who's been
dealt a crappy hand in life.
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Register Other
Title The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long -
Reviews
Source http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11737311-the-treachery-
of-beautiful-things