In a message dated 10-24-14, Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Good evening Paul,   
   though it's morning as I reply.   
      
   PQ> Thanks.  It was a good afternoon.  How was yours?   
      
   Not very good. There was a light drizzle all day until the evening when   
   it turned to heavy rain. I went out for a walk but soon discovered that   
   I would get wet so I dropped in to a shop having a sale on jeans and   
   bought a new pair. Except that and a couple of excursions to markets for   
   food was my ration of fresh air yesterday.   
      
   No rain so far today but the threat is there.   
      
    HG> I haven't talked so much with australasian people that I would know   
    HG> but the people on the British Isles do say cheerio.   
      
   PQ> Around grade 7 or 8, our English teacher did a snappy test of his   
   PQ> students' voices.  It was a characterization thing, discerning how   
   PQ> much the Aussie accent might have degraded even at our early age.   
      
   I have noted that children that have finnish as their native language   
   moving to the Aland Islands do get completely rid of the finnish accent   
   if they are aged before they come to their teens.   
      
   OTOH having swedish as your native language, as I do, you will start   
   talking the aland dialect so well that only non-alanders discern that   
   your dialect isn't perfect. It's the pronounciation of the umlaut   
   letters that hang you out, .   
      
   PQ> Long version: The class makeup was somewhat skewed by ethnic   
   PQ> diversity however, as many class members were born to immigrants   
   PQ> from post-WWII Europe and other pre-Soviet countries displaced by   
   PQ> the Russian hordes.   
      
   We do have quite a lot of refugees from various countries as well and   
   depending on their age they will learn swedish so that they can exist   
   even in this country.   
      
   PQ> Short version: I was near the 'norm' as I was born to Irish   
   PQ> catholics. :)  In any case, the teacher characterized my voice as   
   PQ> 'educated Australian' which I have found to be the most common   
   PQ> accent here over the last 50 years.   
      
   So am I since I was born to parents with swedish as native language.   
      
   PQ> Nearly Saturday.  :)  And, not long till the Gold Coast 600(?)   
   PQ> starts...   
      
   Right you are. Motors TV will show a replay of the race at 21:20 tonight   
   and then a couple of times tomorrow. The replay is 2h 10min long.   
      
   The coming night we'll go back to standard time   
      
   Have a good evening,   
      
   Holger   
      
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