An election pun because I hate you all

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Alex: Yeh I've been spending really liberally this week.
Me: As opposed to spending labourly?

In other news I totally voted for the horse riding/outdoor recreation party

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[(Anonymous)]

Election after election I am tempted to hand in an empty ballot: my silent demonstration in favour of non-mandatory voting. Thing is, it really is a bit silent. So I voted with it instead.

By the way, long time no speak. How are things? Facebook too nerdy for you, huh? I knew I'd surpass you in the end!

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I'm confused about why everyone is taking up facebook with such eagerness; I was under the impression its very similar to MySpace? That said, everyone else is doing it so I suppose I'll add that to list of online haunts eventually.

As for how I am, the answer is busy. So busy that my pre-job computer time per day exceeds my current computer time per week. And the weird thing is that I'm somewhat enjoying it. I have a post planned for some time in the future (when I have time to write it) about the linguistics course I'm doing this semester.

And how are you?

[(Anonymous)]

I am phenomenally busy, and I have no social life right now outside of Facebook and my blog. I suppose it is a bit like MySpace, only I've now managed to get in touch with people who I haven't spoken to in several years, and that seems pretty cool.

I look forward to hearing about your linguistics course! I'm slowly making my way through a book called An Introduction to Functional Grammar (Halliday and Matthiessen) and am finding it interesting but hard. Sucks, never having studied linguistics at uni...

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Oh you're not missing too much :P I get the feeling that you and I would enjoy swapping books/courses. My course is called Social Contexts and so far we've learnt about English imperialism, how languages die, English as an international language... its all very interesting but not quite up my alley. But on the other hand I get to give a presentation about second language acquisition as part of the course so it's not all bad :)

re:Facebook, yeh, a lot of people have said similar things to me. But the real question is: Do I have time to add Facebook to my current blogging and MSN?

[(Anonymous)]

I would very much enjoy taking your courses - but if by swapping you mean stop taking mine, then never! There's something better than linguistics, in my opinion, and that's studying the languages themselves. I think you'd really enjoy clocking up a few ancient ones: ever thought of giving it a bash? I might recommend Aramaic, but that's just because it's not hard for anyone who has even a bit of Hebrew, and the literature in Aramaic is just so much fun.

Sydney Uni should pay me commission, considering all the people to whom I recommend their courses...

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[axl12.livejournal.com]

Do cunning linguists like puns?

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That was terrible.

And in answer to your question, I have no idea. Puns seem to be an acquired taste, I've noticed.