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Speak a ommon spelling error list (hints on demand)
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writes: On 2017-09-13 10:37, NY wrote: [] Sadly the Queen's rather stilted and painful reading-out of a speech that was probably written by someone else is a big turn off. She writes her own speeches. Her apparent boredom is upper class With, of course, the exception of "The Queen's Speech", which (roughly) each session of parliament is opened, and gives the current government's plans for what they intend (hope, whatever - depends on your cynicism and how well you align with the current party in power) to achieve in the coming session. Though read by the monarch, it's certainly not written by her/him. (The joke in the title of the film about a recent king's stammer is thus lost on those not familiar with this.) reticence: it's bad form to show your emotions in public. If you can read the signs (I can), she has been quite emotional in her Christmas messages. The reference to "faking sincerity" should make it quite clear that emotional expression is not universal. What the writers meant was "express that attitude/emotion the same way I would". Recent attempts at finding expressions of emotion that have the same significance across cultures have found none. Indeed. The queen is also from a generation - and, yes, class, though I think the generation is more significant - that expressed its emotions less openly than ours. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Lucy Worsley takes tea in Jane Austen's Regency Bath. - TV "Choices" listing, RT 2017-5-27 |
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