The Modern Middle East, Explained
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South Africans have a fairly complicated relationship with the word now and even though we can try to explain it, the reality is you still might not get it.
South Africans speak English, but that doesn’t mean you’ll always understand us. Our “robots” are nothing like R2D2, “just now” doesn’t mean immediately, and “babbelas” is not a shampoo. South African English has a flavour all its own, borrowing freely from Afrikaans, which is similar to Dutch and Flemish, as well as from the country’s many
Letter to the bank
A 96-year-old woman’s note to her bank! Priceless! The following is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by a 96 year-old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times. —————————- To whom it may concern, I am writing to thank you for bouncing
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