Bruny Island Film

Film-goer living on an island, off an island, off an island at the end of the world

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@potatoslav My nephew was raised as a swedish australian bilingual, in Oz. At age 2 his Mum took him to met his Swedish Mormor. She said he was speechless for a few days as it dawned on him a whole country spoke swedish - & it wasn't just his weird thing his mum did at home in Australia!

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@potatoslav Between 2 to 4 he may get the grammar mixed up, until he sorts out which grammatical rules belong to which language. Very normal as children are aquiring a rule based system - grammar acquisition is one of the most amazing achievements of chikdhood.

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@potatoslav What you are developing is known in Applied Linguistics as a 'Family Language Policy' e.g. family rules about when Language 1 & Language 2 around your child. If interested, I can give you references for 2 Australia papers which follow families for several years.

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@MochaLite @joshuarolson And so sexy!

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@adrianmckinty Revealed genre in TTTSS....(sorry X word count problems)....SM is less an elaborate investigator of Soviet agents & emigres, but greek tragedy, hamartia, sole human attachment destroys K

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@adrianmckinty I value Merv Emre's observation that in the trilogy we are 'betrayed by genre'. In TTTSS, apparent genre is mole hunt, reveal genre is intimate betrayal, love & dependence. SP is Victorian domestic novel of fatherhood, tragedy driven by father & child

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@adrianmckinty Esterhase is my favourite character, then Connie. I love the question & answers scene in the gallery (SP). Although I identify with Peter's stubbornly guarded innocence, sustained beneath his tough guy veneer.

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@dieworkwear In 1971, Twiggy was 21 & in LA promoting her film. MGM asked her what she wanted to do: she asked if she could meet Fred Astaire. He invited her to tea the next day. He was 70 but they became friends. I consider that one of the all time great wishes & I'm glad it was granted.

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@adrianmckinty I went to Carrickfergus & walked up to the copshop because of your stories x

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@tootdemure @DavidRoylance And Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy & Edge of Darkness

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@dieworkwear I really hope you get to own a house in a walkable neighbourhood for this PG Wodehouse-level visual wit.

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@KathleenBell47 @adrianmckinty Btw, if any books are delayed, the audiobooks are superb

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@adrianmckinty @Operadata So a Nevil Shute sort of guy?

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@adrianmckinty Mean question, when has read 100s.....1000s

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@MarkSZaidEsq Thank you Mark. His memory is a blessing.

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@emeral4jade_d @potatoslav Australian entering the chat. I understand you just fine. Am I bit scared of you? Yeah. Am I curious about your baby's accent? Hell yeah.

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@potatoslav Books. Classics from the I Can Read series by or illustrated by Arnold Lobel or Minarek. Little Bear series. Mouse Tales series. Owl. Uncle Elephant. Some of the most beautiful books ever written. Sendak - Wild Things. The Tashi books

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@PaulaWink5 @CeliaBedelia 3.30 is halb vier (4) or drei Uhr dreißig. Good idea to write it down.

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@bradleywhitford Or Liberia, Lithuania, Kazakstan?

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@adrianmckinty Chris Koch book YOLD is a great read, the Bhagavad Gita provides the moral & philosophical framework. Koch's brother was a foreign correspondent & I heard he was nicknamed Mal following the film....