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CPallini wrote: not being able to recognize a single word is a novelty.
Just go to Scotland if you think you don't understand a single word. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Well a couple of weeks watching shows like Blackpool and Broadchurch made me understand at least 1 word in 5 of Scottiss... but when a customer from Manchester came here I thought the entire time he was German (I didn't know who he was, that's how communication works in my company). Didn't understand a single syllabe.
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I've been in Scotland several times. Just once I've had serious troubles to understand, the guy was a taxi driver in Glasgow.
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First of all, you have to establish that it is English English that they are speaking. It could be any of a dozen forms of English from the Indian sun-continent, half a dozen forms from the Caribbean, not to mention the many forms from the Eastern EU countries. You're on a hiding to nothing.
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Manchester proper has a very diluted accent so if you're struggling there ..... 
I'm afraid I can't share your experience though. Despite being a soft Southerner by birth I seem to have a Northern ear and even once wrote a short play in idiomatic Scots!
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@Nish-nishant
I enjoyed your C++/CLI book. When are you coming out with a book about Windows 10 universal app development?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 13-Jul-15 13:12pm.
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Well, I am glad you liked that book. It's been 10 years now 
I don't think I've got the time to write a book today. I guess I could if I really wanted to, but it'd be too stressful.
Are you into C++/CX?
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Nish Nishant wrote: Are you into C++/CX?
I am just learning UWP now, so I'm using C# to begin with, since the asynchronous calls are simpler.
But sooner or later I'll try to tackle C++/CX.
Thanks for replying!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ok, good luck with learning and writing some cool UWP apps
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Nish Nishant wrote: I don't think I've got the time to write a book today.
I think most of us can wait until tomorrow. That will give us time to get the relevant VS windows open and arranged properly.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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So my mom has recently learned to text message. She really likes to use a lot of emoticons in her texts. It's kinda cute if not a bit annoying, however this morning I received the following text from her:
"Just letting you know that your grandfather is in the hospital again. LOL!"
I thought, sheesh, that's a bit insensitive.
Turns out that she thinks LOL stands for "Lots of Love".
LOL!
(BTW, grandpa is doing well )
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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Now I actually LOLled . Not for your grandfather, but because knowing my mother it would be really more plausible an actual LOL!
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LOL omg wtf I pwn tht n00b wt teh ub3r 1337 hax roxorz boxorz ftw wtg roflmao
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I understand this. Am I bad ?
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No badder than me
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[hands feeling around for a sharp object]
My eyes! My eyes!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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31337 h4X0r5 4R3 3v3RYwh3R3, 7h053 5Cr1p7 k1Dd135...
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I'm almost ashamed of the fact that I was able to read this without any hesitation... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Don't worry, those were GREAT times to be alive and kicking!
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Sander Rossel wrote: boxorz
TMI
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10-4
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Shouldn't this be posted in Q&A? Either that or it's time to buy a new keyboard. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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