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[Jack & Naree]

phonetic English is the path to global Balkanisation.

 P.S.
> I am currently doing a Swedish course in a group of 21 different
> nationalities. The English speaking people have by far the worst
> pronunciation, where the Americans are worse than the Scottish,
> Canadians or Australians (we don't have any English people). The worst
> way to write down a pronunciation is by trying to write it phonetically in
> English - you end up with pronunciations that are totally different from 
> the
> way it is actually pronounced. My name is NOT pronounced "Gair-Rid Hole" -
> not even near (see [[en:User:Gerritholl]] for how it is), but I can't 
> think
> of a closer approximation using this "phonetic transcription".
> 
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> Temperature in Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden:
> | Current temperature 05-09-20 20:09:50 10.5 degrees Celsius ( 51.0F) |
> --
> Det finns inte dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder.
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