"DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever" (eg6)
08/11/2018 at 11:51 • Filed to: None
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"DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever" (eg6)
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I say yes Oppo.
Full disclosure, he also thinks English is the best language and that American English is a second class English.
Svend
> DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
08/11/2018 at 12:31 |
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The BBC was seen by many of the French as a saviour.
They would write letters to the BBC saying where German installations were, even if they lived close by and knew they’d be killed if the allied powers chose to bomb it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27340358
The remarkable discovery of a box of letters in the archives of the BBC is shedding new light on conditions and attitudes in France during World War Two.
The letters - about 1,000 have survived - were sent to London from just after the French surrender to Germany in June 1940, through to the end of 1943.
They were addressed to the French service of the BBC, otherwise known as Radio Londres, which during the German occupation was a vital source of information and comfort for millions of French men and women.
Extracts from the letters were read out on Friday evenings on a programme called The French Speak to the French, whose aim was to build morale and stiffen civilian resistance to the Germans and Vichy.
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Most of the letters were sent anonymously or signed with pseudonyms or initials - only occasionally is there a full name. The risk was great, if the writers were identified.
“The letters come from people in every walk of life - workers, intellectuals, farmers. And they deal with every kind of subject - the hardships, the shortages, the arrests, denunciations of collaborators, small acts of resistance,” says Luneau. “Some even give maps showing the RAF where to bomb.”
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The stories told in the letters were of vital importance to De Gaulle’s Free French in London.
They allowed the movement - and indeed British intelligence - to gauge opinion in France and also to judge the impact of their propaganda effort conducted via the BBC.
It is estimated that some 70 per cent of French households with a radio set turned in to the BBC during the war - and even today the reputation of the BBC in France owes much to the collective memory of those days.
Throughout all the letters, the one constant theme is gratitude for keeping alive the cause of freedom.
In December 1944, a teacher called Monsieur Godard - it was after the Liberation so he could use his real name - sent a poem of thanksgiving to the BBC, written by his daughter.
The last couplet reads: “Le Monde entier tournant les yeux vers vous / Crie, Merci, BBC, Honneur a vous!”
The Whole World turns its eyes on you / And shouts, Thank You BBC, All Honour to You!
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
08/11/2018 at 12:32 |
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Interestingly, English hasn’t had standardized spelling for very long, so the advantage was only gained fairly recently. W e’re talking after my ancestors arrived in the colonies, so it isn’t exactly that long ago. Everything prior to this standardization was simply phonetic and challenging to read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform
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DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2018 at 14:33 |
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the Chicago Tribune , used a number of reformed spellings... including tho
I like how “tho” has come back as a meme word.