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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #25 on: October 27, 2007, 06:21:46 AM »
He's making fun of the press, baiting them over thier own biases over race and professional atheletes.

He was in the National Honor Society at the University of Florida.  laugh I think he knows what language is spoken in London.

Really? I thought the National Honor Society was a high school thing. Admittedly it has been a very long time since I was in high school, but I've never heard any mention of the NHS beyond grade 12. 


Maybe he was just joking.  AJ Dual couldn't possibly be that stupid.   cheesy
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #26 on: October 27, 2007, 09:32:44 AM »
We are the size of Wyoming, with a population of 60 million plus. We have at least as many regional accents/dialects as you guys do, so some people might have trouble.

Newcastle (Geordie accent): Way-aye mon, AH'M GANNING dAN THah TOON,!

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #27 on: October 27, 2007, 10:58:18 AM »
Well, why can't you all just learn to speak English?!   angry

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #28 on: October 27, 2007, 01:19:38 PM »
Yeah?

Well, our Wyoming only has 500,000 people living there.

That makes it infinitely superior.  laugh
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #29 on: October 28, 2007, 07:03:53 AM »
I've talked with some English folks on the telephone, and I would say that you definitely do need a translator  laugh
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #30 on: October 28, 2007, 10:39:19 AM »
Some of their accents may be pleasing, but I fink cockneys sound retarded.

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #31 on: October 29, 2007, 05:17:43 AM »
I'll tell you what, we will learn to speak English, when you learn to spell English. Tongue

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2007, 05:30:50 AM »
He's making fun of the press, baiting them over thier own biases over race and professional atheletes.

He was in the National Honor Society at the University of Florida.  laugh I think he knows what language is spoken in London.

Really? I thought the National Honor Society was a high school thing. Admittedly it has been a very long time since I was in high school, but I've never heard any mention of the NHS beyond grade 12. 

Maybe he was just joking.  AJ Dual couldn't possibly be that stupid.   cheesy

You're right, it's his high school in Atlanta. http://www.miamidolphins.com/newsite/team/roster/playerBio.asp?docid=18150  As his own official Dolphin's bio attests.

And not joking, nor stupid, just forgetful.  grin I can't remember what the equivalents are called in College. Even more embarrassing, I was in it due to my 3.8 I maintained my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin.   Don't worry, it went downhill for me fast from there. Maybe that explains things. cheesy

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IIRC reading up on this, (I need to find a credible cite) he maintained a 3.5 at the U of FL, granted that might be a "football program 3.5". However, I still say he's pulling the press' legs big time here.

And besides, even if you are the stereotypical sub-literate idiot athlete, how could you not watch 20 odd years of TV and movies and not know London is in England, and English is spoken there? People going into brain-lock when confronted by Jay Leno and a camera don't count.

It just does not pass the smell test.
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