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Wouldn't it be great if public officials would say what they in fact mean the first time?
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Torontonians are hardwired to be incapable of speaking like this.
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And law enforcement are trained to speak a language with sounds like english, but isn't, and which makes no sense.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...

(A long-ish read, but totally worth it. the "punch line" is beautiful.)

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Speed and brownness were involved in a jumping‑related incident with a lazy dog and a fox.
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Poetry.
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I would say Canadians but British Columbians (yes this is the actual term) are even worse
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An sms blaster was never used in fraud like this in Canada. Does that really make that big of a difference to you?
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I don't buy it. To me, it'd be like hearing them say "we've never seen spam/scam phone call campaigns before!"

This loses all believability, given the fact that i can reliably go out of town to a different area code and immediately start getting phishing/scam/robo calls/texts from numbers of said area code. Granted, i am U.S.'ian.

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