Interesting. Fiorella, the linguist, suddenly realized that when people have known each other for a long time, they develop their own mini-languages, short-cutting references to mutual experiences or previous discussions. And that, in a nut shell, is how dialects, then languages, build up.
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Did you know that Canada is now Covid-free, that Trudeau shut the country down for a fair amount of time and he's now in the "let's be careful" phase, while the numbers are still spiking in the good ol' USA? Sad.
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Fiorella hauled several fallen branches out of el parke today, but she's not sure what to do with them. They'd make great firewood for the winter, but she has the feeling her realtor will want them out of sight. Good grief--who doesn't value aged oak?
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Well, your girl drove over to her doctor for a scheduled check-up today, and apparently, she's still in good shape. The weird part of the visit was that Fio and an elderly man--who sat several seats away--were the only patients in the waiting room. Yep, the virus has turned the whole world upside down.
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Hah--Fiorella made it all the way to the end of the blog without losing it! Earlier in the day, she wrote out five witty conversational topics, then somehow touched the wrong key on her machine and erased EVERYTHING.
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