<p>I watch the news in the morning while I eat breakfast, and I saw snippets of her speech. It didn’t look very interesting and she has an annoying accent. God.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, yesterday morning, there was a thing in the news about some ridiculous spaghetti eating contest in Ohio. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. </p>
<p>Oh and also, the Toronto International Film Festival > Spaghetti eating contests.</p>
<p>Watching the news so much (read: three hours every day) has corrupted me. I’ve pretty much lost all my regional accent quirks, and I can speak at 90 mph (145 kph for you Canadians). For instance, I no longer do that sentence-end preposition thing like the people in Ohio do (Where are my keys at?) I also don’t have the flat nasal vowels anymore. I talk like news people now. I think it intimidates people at school.</p>
<p>Wow, rocker, that’s pretty weird. She probably didn’t want to seem too egotistical. And how would that look, if everyone knew that she’s teaching from her own book? Of course it makes sense, but it is rather self-centered.</p>
<p>My textbooks are all lame middle school textbooks. I’m pretty sure a sixth grader could understand what’s in my US Government book. A sixth grader could probably learn all the material, too.</p>
<p>I speak fast naturally. And I don’t have an accent. </p>
<p>People here end sentences in prepositions as a joke. I didn’t think people really did that.</p>
<p>edit: No, it doesn’t work that way here. The ministry of education approves one or two textbooks to be used for a specific class, and public schools have to use the approved textbooks. And I doubt there’s more than one approved philosophy textbook.</p>
I say my a’s nasally for no reason at all, as in “Oh my gad!”. I sound like I’m from Michigan sometimes. And I can sound ghetto with scarily little effort if I wanted. But I don’t have an accent. Mhm.</p>