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Re: Sir Clement Freud on slang

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DaveFeb 10, 2007
 

 
Superb! And my friends wonder why I want to listen to the Today
programme!

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...>
wrote:

>
> Sir Clement Freud on slang
>
> I've found it a bit late but it's very amusing - the great man on

the

> BBC's Today programme last October. He's talking about why people

in

> public life shouldn't use slang.
>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/zwednesday_20061011.shtm
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> Scroll down to 0740.
>
> An example
>
> JOHN HUMPHRYS: You can hardly imagine some of our great former

Foreign

> Secretaries for instance using that kind of language, can you?
>
> CLEMENT FREUD: Remind me of our great Foreign Secretaries...
>
> Among the phrases you can hear Sir Clement utter in his unique

deadpan

> style are "cool", "sucks" and "my arse!" And he ends up deviating

on to

> how to cook eggs.
>
> You gotta love 'im!
>

 
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