Sarah Ulmer found that even after her short break away from these fatal shores, upon her return home she was ultra sensitive to the rising inflection in what should be statements, not questions.
I mean: in what should be statements, not questions? It's an easy pattern of speech to fall into?
Whenever I was guilty of this heinous crime, Bloody Ern would shrug his shoulders, look at me and say, "I dunno. You're telling the story."
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I've never done that. Must've been my British-flavoured foreign upbringing :)
Isn't there some kind of Australian stereotype of a blond girl with a bathing suit and tan who speaks in questions like that?
Of course, stereotypes are often based on reality, however unfair.
Lonie - never apologise for a classical education.
Karen - not so much based on reality as steeped in it.
Oh, thank you! I am using BE's line the next time MBM* tells me that she had a busy day? because she had lots to do? and then someone rang? and she didn't get any time to read?
* my bloody mother.
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